Anyone else ever ruined a pair of Suntour barend shifters by applying excessive force trying to remove them, not realizing the one has to turn CLOCKWISE to loosen?
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
Mark Stonich <bikesmith@earthlink.net> wrote: Please tell me I'm not the only one to try to remove a crank arm w/o removing the washer under the crank bolt.
I drilled into my wife and kids that if anything requires more than 50% more force than you think it should, you are doing it wrong and should stop. I hope none of them reads this, because when that crank didn't come off, I put a cheater bar on the handle of the Park crank puller and reefed on it till the puller started to strip the threads.
They say "God watches out for fools and drunks.". It must be true, because after I removed the washer, the damaged threads held well enough to pull the crank. In fact I re-used the arm and have had it off a couple of times since.
Mark Stonich;
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