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Title: Redline 400 non driveside pedal stuck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: crazycraig on August 29, 2011, 10:23 PM: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: am i going going to do ?

I have a suntour XC spindal stuck in and cant get it out for nothing . I have soaked it in WD , I have had it in the vice with no joy .

Any ideas ? ? ? ?

:-[
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Post by: wildon on August 29, 2011, 10:25 PM: you tried heating and rapid cooling it?
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Post by: Betty on August 29, 2011, 10:28 PM: Soak it in diesel... :daumenhoch:
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Post by: crazycraig on August 29, 2011, 10:29 PM: No i have not wildon . Do you suggest heating the spindal or the crank arm ?
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Post by: crazycraig on August 29, 2011, 10:30 PM: Quote from: Betty on August 29, 2011, 10:28 PM
Soak it in diesel... :daumenhoch:

I have soaked it in WD would that not be better than diesel ?
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Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on August 29, 2011, 10:34 PM: Turn it the other way ? might sound strange but you might be tightening it ? just a thought ???
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Post by: wildon on August 29, 2011, 10:35 PM: Quote from: CRAZYPAVING on August 29, 2011, 10:29 PM
No i have not wildon . Do you suggest heating the spindal or the crank arm ?

i'd heat the spindle as it might cause some damage to the chrome on the arm. seen someone do it on youtube where he heated it with a blow torch then dipped it in ice water and repeated that a few times :daumenhoch:
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Post by: Betty on August 29, 2011, 10:37 PM: That was diggler's advice to a similar problem.... sprocket bolt seized

Must admit i've not tried it... sprocket's still stuck to the crank arm... ;D
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Post by: diesel on August 29, 2011, 10:38 PM: I've had this before:

Buy a long pedal spanner, put the spanner and the crank down so that they make a upside down V (^) raised from the floor you might need to get someone to hold them or prop them with their foot.

press down with your foot on the top of the 'V'

Remember that pedals always tighten in a forward motion, so that when you pedal the pedal is kept tight.

That means that the non-drive side will untighten clockwise if you are looking at it side on.
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Post by: crazycraig on August 29, 2011, 10:40 PM: Think i may try the heat route ..........

Whats the worst case scenario here .......... I end up with an Andy Patterson JMC with suntour XC's on or even worse lose a crank set :'(
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Post by: crazycraig on August 29, 2011, 10:41 PM: Thanks for the advice chaps .......... I am hoping someone else will offer to do it ........So i can blame someone else :D
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Post by: rollin72 on August 29, 2011, 11:02 PM: i'll do it for you :D
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Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on August 29, 2011, 11:06 PM: try coke~a~cola - it will eat the rust and not just slip past it - half an hour in and then try the long crank spaner on the floor and put weight on it ;)
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Post by: jT Racing on August 29, 2011, 11:25 PM: You are undoing it by turning it clockwise Craig?
Vice on the spindle, rubber hammer on the arm otherwise.
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Post by: crazycraig on August 29, 2011, 11:32 PM: :daumenhoch:
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Post by: Rodgy1970 on August 29, 2011, 11:52 PM: Quote from: J.T Racing on August 29, 2011, 11:25 PM
You are undoing it by turning it clockwise Craig?
Vice on the spindle, rubber hammer on the arm otherwise.

Good idear

Vice in spindle scaffolding bar over crank = leverage

If the spindle slips round weld a bolt or bar across it.
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Post by: theRuler on August 29, 2011, 11:55 PM: Try boiling water for heat.
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Post by: dordymush on August 30, 2011, 12:00 AM: SMASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT :knuppel2:
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Post by: theRuler on August 30, 2011, 12:12 AM: (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFzX1n6tk-s/Tgt3d6l02wI/AAAAAAAAAFA/f5liYeQWavc/s1600/salt.jpg)
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Post by: dordymush on August 30, 2011, 12:49 AM: salt mends everything :crazy2:
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Post by: trasher on August 30, 2011, 05:04 AM: If You heat the spindle then the spindle will expand

It's the crank you need to expand so the spindle comes out
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Post by: rick1970 on August 30, 2011, 06:37 AM: Rule number 1 ; Always grease your threads before fitting :D
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Post by: Bigplinky on August 30, 2011, 08:03 AM: Ring a local Engineering company they may be able to freeze it out for you (costs but works better than heat) or get it drilled out by somebody who knows what they are doing
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Post by: crazycraig on August 30, 2011, 11:37 AM: I will have a do when i get home at the weekend and report back !!!! Thanks again fellas :daumenhoch:
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Post by: jT Racing on August 30, 2011, 01:00 PM: If you struggle, drop it off at mine and I'll sort it at work.
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Post by: crazycraig on August 30, 2011, 01:11 PM: Wow !!!! Nice one JT :-*
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Post by: QUADROPHENIA on August 30, 2011, 02:19 PM: Ffs Craig and tools, just stick to body dying
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Post by: crazycraig on August 30, 2011, 02:23 PM: :LolLolLolLol:

I wondered when you would stumble accross the thread
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Post by: HUTCHMAN on August 30, 2011, 06:54 PM: Quote from: Bigplinky on August 30, 2011, 08:03 AM
Ring a local Engineering company they may be able to freeze it out for you (costs but works better than heat) or get it drilled out by somebody who knows what they are doing

you could try some "ROSTOFF ICE" made by Wurth.It's a freezing spray.
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Post by: oldschoolib on August 30, 2011, 09:29 PM: go with bendy and try coca cola that stuff is lethal or try release fluid
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Post by: moochalargo on August 31, 2011, 06:58 AM: I need a drive side only so if it goes wrong I'll have the drive side please lol
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Post by: theRuler on August 31, 2011, 09:42 AM: Quote from: HUTCHMAN on August 30, 2011, 06:54 PM
you could try some "ROSTOFF ICE"

Isn't that where Scooby Doo posts his letters?
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Post by: jT Racing on August 31, 2011, 11:05 AM: Fookinell. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: crazycraig on September 09, 2011, 08:48 AM: Done it !!! brute force and vice :)
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Post by: Bob_Acid on September 09, 2011, 08:49 AM: Well done :daumenhoch:
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Post by: HARORIDER on September 09, 2011, 08:54 AM: shit :-[ was going to say sell em to me cheap and i'll get it out no problem :daumenhoch:
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Post by: crazycraig on September 09, 2011, 08:56 AM: I put them in the for sale area up for offers and no one sniffed >:(
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Post by: 58 delray on September 09, 2011, 12:04 PM: Quote from: CRAZYPAVING on September 09, 2011, 08:56 AM
I put them in the for sale area up for offers and no one sniffed >:(
i did but you had changed your mind by then :LolLolLolLol:
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Post by: crazycraig on September 09, 2011, 12:07 PM: I didnt want to give it up :-\