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@Kimmo
Back in the dark days before I left quill stems behind, never to return, I sometimes used to hold the bar clamp open with something jammed in the gap after removing the bolt, often helped a lot. I think I first tried it when trying to avoid scratching outside the clamp area of the bar, but found it also helped heaps with getting the bar through to that point.