hey viewers back to work on this pooja bike here this is a vintage pooja I believe it's a uoa or some similar model to that I made in France between 1970 74 they've seen this I've got a previous video on that and I've also put some pictures of this on my Facebook page RJ the bike guy and over there like that page and see stuff over there anyway what I'm gonna do today is an overhaul the head set the shift cables are already cut you know because I plan on replacing these and then the brake cables are also cut you may need to release the shift cables and or brake cables in order to remove the stem here just because they'll be kind of holding that down but that's already been done on this so the first thing I'm gonna do is remove the front wheel just kind of get this out of the way here so just drop that down then remove the stem from the fork tube here by removing this actually loosening this bolt here and then I should be able to you see just like the wedge is kind of stuck in there cut that down get this there there so like just the wedge was stuck in there so that that's out now then you want to remove this little lock nut up here on this particular one this lock nut is like stripped out so it doesn't screw on real tight so you would use just a wrench to go ahead and remove this and I'm going to be fixing this in another video so don't worry about that at this point then there's a little hanger for the brake hey we'll pull that off and then there's a keyed lock washer so it's got the little key here that goes into the little slot in the fork tube that there it's got these little holes in there and the little holes line up with this little pin here okay for this next part you want to be careful I want to hold the fork up and I can remove this part here this cone is because there's loose bearings in this lower Cup down here and if I just remove this the fork will drop and those bearings are going to fall all over the place and I prefer that not happen just unscrew this and then there's a some caged bearings around here but I'll pull those out a bit and then I'm going to use just like a little Tupperware container or box or something and just be prepared in case those fall out and they're not falling out sometimes they'll fall all out there and I'll go all over the place you don't want particular you want that so I can go ahead just pull these bearings out of there they're just kind of in this cup down here like that and then here's the cage bearings from the top there okay here's all the the parts from the inside here I'm going to use some solvent probably some mineral spirits like you probably also use some such degreaser I'm going to clean the crown race and then the steerer tube and I'm going to replace these loose bearings in there and I'm gonna clean up this cage bearings here I'm going to see if I can replace these if not those clean them up and put them back in then I also want to clean these cups here so I have a rag with a little bit of mineral spirits on there and I'm just going to clean these races out all the old grease and dirt out of there like here and then down here as well and then you want to check the various races and cups and cones for any damage any cracks and what's called briteling where you see little bumps in there and so these all look pretty good you want to check inside the cuffs here and if any of the parts looked like they're damaged you may want to try to replace them and unfortunately I like a vintage Pujo like this you might have a little bit of difficulty finding the parts so you have kind of you know if they if you find them they may be expensive so you have to weigh you know using the damaged parts against the cost of the parts but it is what it is I went to local bike shop and they were able to match the cage bearings that came out of the top and so I got some new ones of those and here's one of the bearings that came out of the bottom or loose bearings and so I've got a gauge here the measures of the bearings and this goes falls right through there at the 5/32 inch so that's the size of the bearing that we're on the bottom and I counted 24 of them so I have some brand new bearings to replace the ones on the bottom okay I've got the frame flipped upside down so this is actually the bottom cup and I'm gonna use some grease here I got some good quality marine grease and I'm going to fill the cup here with grease and so it will hold the the bearings in place like that now you just run that around a little bit now using some tweezers I've got the 5/32 inch bearings and I'm just going to place 24 bearings around the race at least I'm pretty sure that's that's how many I pulled out of there so I don't know if I lost any somewhere along the line but I'll see how 24 looks in there if you if you don't know how many bearings go there you should have almost a complete circle around there - maybe one or two three bearings a small gap around in there if in doubt you know go with whatever was originally in there if you don't know then leave maybe about a two bearing gap in there okay there's 24 bearings in there there's still a slight gap right there maybe about two bearings which is what I expected so anyway that looks look like about the right account if you if you pull like more out of yours they go with whatever that is but I'm going to go with 24 in there I flip the bike right-side up now the the agrees is holding the bearings in on the bottom side and so now I'm going to fill this cup here with some grease and then I've got the the the new cage bearings what I want to do is just squirt a little bit of grease in between each of the bearings in the cage there just try to get it kind of packed in there a little bit and then I'm going to set these bearings in here I'm going to put the the flat side of the cage here down because that way because the cone is going to come down on this side and so it's going to fit the inside there so if I do this the cone will be rubbing against the the flat part of the cage there so on this kind of bearing just kind of put this down in there like that and then I've got the fork here and I'm going to put just a light coating of grease just around in here I probably going to need to grease down here because it grease down on the berries down there but put just a light coating of grease down the round in here and that will just help protect the metal from corrosion and getting up around on the threads there that'll help everything kind of screw on a little bit smoother because you want to like leave the metal bare there now carefully insert the fork from the bottom be careful not to knock any of those bearings that place there and it should fit right up in there like this and you could test it make sure it turns smoothy like this and then I've got the little part that came off the top there so I'm going to screw this on until it tightens against these cage bearings here and I want it to turn smoothly without any play and I can actually back this off just a touch here like this and just kind of get it to where it turns nice and smoothly without a play and then you've got this little keyed lock washer here this little key is going to fit in this little slot in the back of the fork like this so when you finally get this kind of adjusted to where you you want it where it's turning smoothly but not too loose then this little keys just to fit back in there it's going to fit down over here and then the little pin here on the top of this little part here is going to fit into that little hole and then this little lock washer will keep this thing from turning and coming loose or tightening so much that actually feels pretty good there now I can put the cable hanger on there and this is also keyed so that's going to fit like right in there and then this also works as a spacer and then I've got this little lock nut here which should screw on but like I said this one is a stripped out a little bit so I'm going to be working on fixing that in a future video hopefully and so this would tighten on like this it's almost if if I take this part off here then I can actually get it to tighten on there like this but I kind of need this I could possibly replace the cable hanger with one that clamps onto the stem but I'm not going to do that right now but fit this in there and this like I said this would just tighten it on there and it doesn't need to be cranked on there it just needs to be enough that this stuff on here doesn't come off there now just reinstall the handlebars here and tighten the little bolt here and I'm not going to clamp it down real tight yet because I'm going to probably need to strain it for the front wheel well I got the front wheel reott remounted I still need to reattach the shift cables and the brake cables there like that I need to replace these shifters I'm going to do that separately but other than this lock nut that's kind of stripped out everything's working nice and fine nice and smoothly here anyway that's how you overhaul the headset on a vintage Pujo road bike like this I hope you found that useful or in it interesting if you did please click like on the video I always appreciate getting likes on my videos and if you're not subscribe my channel click the subscribe button and you'll see new videos as they come out and I'm also over on Facebook RJ the bike guy go over there like that page and I post a lot of stuff over there anyway thank you very much for watching