Originally Posted by
Flatulentfox
Are you sure that your stem/spacers extend past the steer tube? Make sure the top cap is not bottomed out against the steer tube before it properly compresses the head set. You should not have to crank it down very tight at all, in fact you will likely damage something if you do.
there is a little over 1mm of room between the spacers and the top of the tube. Maybe thats not enough? I left the tube a little longer before making the final cut, so I will probably drop it another cm or so and lose a spacer, but I think it has enough room now to press everything together.