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Bearing adjustment, SPD pedal
For Back To School, I gave my purposely crummy school bike the bi-annual
once-over inspection and noticed that one of the PD-M505 pedals was feeling pretty loose on its bearings so I took it apart. I popped off the plastic end cover and exposed a 10mm stopnut. It was on pretty tight, and I had to clamp the pedal in the vice and use a 10-inch socket wrench handle to get it off. Under the stopnut is the bearing cone that accepts a 13mm wrench -- or it would, but all of my 13mm sockets are too fat to get in there. Anyway, the cone turned off with a little screwdriver poking and I took everything apart and gave it all a cleaning. Now I'm trying to figure out how to assemble it properly. The socket used to tighten the stopnut fills the opening so that I can't grab the bearing cone and prevent it from over-tightening when I tighten the stopnut. What's the trick here? -- mike elliott, on a Labor Day weekend with (clearly) nothing better to do. |
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Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
For Back To School, I gave my purposely crummy school bike the bi-annual once-over inspection and noticed that one of the PD-M505 pedals was feeling pretty loose on its bearings so I took it apart. I popped off the plastic end cover and exposed a 10mm stopnut. It was on pretty tight, and I had to clamp the pedal in the vice and use a 10-inch socket wrench handle to get it off. Under the stopnut is the bearing cone that accepts a 13mm wrench -- or it would, but all of my 13mm sockets are too fat to get in there. Anyway, the cone turned off with a little screwdriver poking and I took everything apart and gave it all a cleaning. Now I'm trying to figure out how to assemble it properly. The socket used to tighten the stopnut fills the opening so that I can't grab the bearing cone and prevent it from over-tightening when I tighten the stopnut. What's the trick here? -- mike elliott, on a Labor Day weekend with (clearly) nothing better to do. There is a special tool for the job. You might be able to hold the cone with a very thin screwdriver, but my attempts at that were marginal, so I broke down and bought the tool. I figured I'll always have SPDs on multiple bikes for me and my wife, and it would ultimately be worth it. Wayne |
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Wayne Pein wrote:
Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote: For Back To School, I gave my purposely crummy school bike the bi-annual once-over inspection and noticed that one of the PD-M505 pedals was feeling pretty loose on its bearings so I took it apart. I popped off the plastic end cover and exposed a 10mm stopnut. It was on pretty tight, and I had to clamp the pedal in the vice and use a 10-inch socket wrench handle to get it off. Under the stopnut is the bearing cone that accepts a 13mm wrench -- or it would, but all of my 13mm sockets are too fat to get in there. Anyway, the cone turned off with a little screwdriver poking and I took everything apart and gave it all a cleaning. Now I'm trying to figure out how to assemble it properly. The socket used to tighten the stopnut fills the opening so that I can't grab the bearing cone and prevent it from over-tightening when I tighten the stopnut. What's the trick here? -- mike elliott, on a Labor Day weekend with (clearly) nothing better to do. There is a special tool for the job. Thanks, Wayne -- what's the tool? -- mike elliott |
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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:05:42 -0700, Mike Rocket J Squirrel
wrote: Wayne Pein wrote: Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote: For Back To School, I gave my purposely crummy school bike the bi-annual once-over inspection and noticed that one of the PD-M505 pedals was feeling pretty loose on its bearings so I took it apart. I popped off the plastic end cover and exposed a 10mm stopnut. It was on pretty tight, and I had to clamp the pedal in the vice and use a 10-inch socket wrench handle to get it off. Under the stopnut is the bearing cone that accepts a 13mm wrench -- or it would, but all of my 13mm sockets are too fat to get in there. Anyway, the cone turned off with a little screwdriver poking and I took everything apart and gave it all a cleaning. Now I'm trying to figure out how to assemble it properly. The socket used to tighten the stopnut fills the opening so that I can't grab the bearing cone and prevent it from over-tightening when I tighten the stopnut. What's the trick here? -- mike elliott, on a Labor Day weekend with (clearly) nothing better to do. There is a special tool for the job. Thanks, Wayne -- what's the tool? -- mike elliott Dear Mike, This page may show it: http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg...a l&tc=&q=&s= Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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JeffWills wrote:
wrote: Dear Mike, This page may show it: http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg...a l&tc=&q=&s= Specifically: http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg..._id=SH-TL-PD33 Kewl. Oddly, the QBP catalog on Harris' site does not show it. That's probably why I could not find it on the Harris QBP site. Thanks! -- mike elliott |
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