Does this look right?

Valy

I was about to take off my non-drive side crank but IIRC for whatever reason I made a couple of turns and then went onto removing the drive-side crank... or something like that.

Anyway - my pulling tool got screwed and I took the bike to the LBS and they sorted it - the "hat" of the pulling tool has fused into the crank... they knocked it out and all was fine - they put the drive side on.

However, today I noticed that my non-drive side looks a few mms out vs the drive side crank - it did not seem to get tightened [striktly speaking it was not part of the job, but it looks a bit odd - for me at least]. I had to take it off with and put it back on - thinking it got a little skewed after about 50-60kms of being a couple of turns out and therefore not going in. I pulled it off twice adn same result each time - it seems a few mms out. I don't remember if it was like that before or not. Here is a couple of pics to show you what I mean:



The non-drive crank is screwed in as tight as it will go without having to take out 1m pipes for leverage...

sungod

measure from the inner face of each crank to the centre line of the bike

if they are both the same distance from it, no problem

if they are different distances, something is not right

Valy

Measuring like that would be problematic as the drive-side crank is not the same as the non-drive side.

I think that the non-drive crank is a bit off-centre when screwed on, so knowing me I will probably just end up getting a new chainset in a while.

whyamihere

That's fine.

amaferanga

Bottom bracket on my Giant Bowery is exactly the same. If there's no play in either crank then I wouldn't worry about it.

Valy

Oh yay. Now I am at peace.


.... still probably going ot end up getting a new chainset. -_-