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Do pivot 14s and 15s have the same heel piece?

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Salad20
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Hey guys,
Basically I have a pair of pivot 14s with 115mm brakes and a pair of pivot 15s with 130mm brakes. I want to mount the 15s on some 110mm skis so I was wondering if I could sub the heel piece of the 14s for the heel piece of 15s?
Thanks
Feb 16 2022 2:25AM
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Paul.
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Yes you could do that and be fine, all pivots use the same heel just with a different spring inside. A shop might not agree to mounting them like that though. You could also swap the brakes if you wanted to keep the pairs matching
Feb 16 2022 2:49AM
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ethanshredz
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Yea I would just swap the dildos and keep your sets matched, even though the only difference in the heelpieces is the actual springs.
Feb 16 2022 1:16PM
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Salad20
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Paul.Yes you could do that and be fine, all pivots use the same heel just with a different spring inside. A shop might not agree to mounting them like that though. You could also swap the brakes if you wanted to keep the pairs matching


Is that something i can do at home or should i bring it to a shop?
Feb 17 2022 3:17AM
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Lemuel
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Salad20Is that something i can do at home or should i bring it to a shop?

With pivots it’s definitely an “if you have to ask, bring them to a shop” situation. Swapping brakes requires some disassembly
Feb 17 2022 7:12AM
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Paul.
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Salad20Is that something i can do at home or should i bring it to a shop?


Its pretty easy but a shop wont charge you for it so you might has well have them do it
Feb 17 2022 3:40PM
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tdollo
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100%. Unscrew the dildo from the brake assembly by turning the two black arms with a phillips head screwdriver. Make sure theres some grease on the threads to prevent issues further down the road. Simply re-screw the dildo onto the brake assembly you want to use. Generally i'll screw the arms down to the second little notch thing on the brake assembly; after which you put the boot in and adjust forward pressure accordingly. Hopefully this makes sense, worst case ontario go to a shop and they should do it for free.
Feb 17 2022 5:50PM
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