Stubborn pedals!
carbonfibre
Posts: 72
Ooohh, they won't come off, the little swines!
And now I've gone and chipped a bit of paint trying to rest them free.
LBS said no, we didn't use a high pressure tool to tighten them...
I'm using a brand new pedal spanner (Fisher), and now that's warped/ground down on the side from my exertions.
Yes, I'm turning them the right way. My old man and I are hardly weaklings either....
ARRGGHH!!!!!!
And now I've gone and chipped a bit of paint trying to rest them free.
LBS said no, we didn't use a high pressure tool to tighten them...
I'm using a brand new pedal spanner (Fisher), and now that's warped/ground down on the side from my exertions.
Yes, I'm turning them the right way. My old man and I are hardly weaklings either....
ARRGGHH!!!!!!
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Spray some plus gas on and use a longer spanner or breaker bar.0
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Not as good though. Big spanner is the key really!0
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Yeah. And the paint chip? Breaks my heart just thinking about it.0
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The ends of my crankarms look like they were used to walk the bike down a mountain, I wish I only had chips to worry about
Seriously though, I wouldn't worry about the paint chip. If it really bothers you, your local motor factors or Halfords should have touch up paint in a similar colour.0 -
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Really large spanner is the key, plus positioning the bike so that you can apply plenty of leverage...0
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carbonfibre wrote:1600 bike tho, know wot i mean?
I can see your point. I can still remember the first scratch my bike got (Commencal Meta 5.5.2). It was self inflicted too, not a trail scar It still bothers me more than all the other chips and scratches it's picked up since then. 0 -
Ah man. I'll go back to the shop where I got the spanner from and plead my case.
I just want the effin DMRs on there!!0 -
I scratched my 456 putting it together... disc rotor really caught the chainstay, but stuff happens.0
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try putting a bit of tubing over the end of your pedal spanner to give some leverage and before you try to take it off just squirt your wd40 every 10 mins or so for a few hours and it should come off a dream also sorry to hear about the scratch but that just happens, one of my mates dropped his car keys on his brand new bike before he even rode it, so look on the brightside
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Try joilting the spanner the wrong way then the right way, a rubber mallet works well and there is (to me at any rate others may disagree) always a careful lick of heat, washing off any oil or grase before you start to expand the alloy of the crank to a expand a fraction while undoing the pedal.-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Mongoose Teocali
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Why are MTB economics; spend twice as much as you intended, but only half as much as you wish you could afford? :roll:0 -
you do know that the threads are opposite on each side of the bike, right? right hand side is a right-handed (normal) thread, and the left side is left-handed, meaning you turn it CLOCKWISE to undo?
best way I've found to undo stubborn pedals is to sit on the bike, with the pedal you want to undo at the just forward of the bottom of the stroke, then put the spanner in place, and kick the s#@! out of it, as if you're kick starting an old bike, works every time.
Either that, or get some big beefy arms (my riding buddy sometimes has trouble undoing his wheel skewers I swear to god he couldn't fix a puncture if I wasn't around to undo his skewers for him ) 0 -
Sounds like an excuse for a new bike eh? :-)0
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Well, it took two strapping bike mechs, tons of lube and (where is this going?) a lot of grunting but finally, the fuggers came off.
DMR V12s, in sparkly white are now on, and I think my BP has returned to normal.
Cheers!0
