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I live for the CABE
Last week my daughter and I took a ride of about 15 miles and on the way home I started to get a soft squeak and slight catch at the same spot in the crank rotation.
When I first got this ridable about 5 years ago I was unable to overhaul the bottom bracket because I could not get the crank apart. I took it over to Ridable Replicas a few blocks from me and Greg broke his best crank puller trying to get it free. The Woodruff Key seems to have been forced out the backside a bit as you can see from my photos. Since I couldn't pull it apart for cleaning and lube an engineer friend suggested flooding it through the seat tube with WD-40 or Liquid Wrench until it ran clean and then use aerosol white lithium grease to lube it. That has worked fine for probably 600 miles or more of riding but after 5 years it looks like that's no longer enough. I suspect a bearing is getting ground up now.
Today I put some Kroil in there, tried some tapping here and there and a heat gun. I've left it with some wooden shims putting pressure on it and letting the Kroil soak. Anyone have any words of wisdom? I may be in for a long fight with this beast.
When I first got this ridable about 5 years ago I was unable to overhaul the bottom bracket because I could not get the crank apart. I took it over to Ridable Replicas a few blocks from me and Greg broke his best crank puller trying to get it free. The Woodruff Key seems to have been forced out the backside a bit as you can see from my photos. Since I couldn't pull it apart for cleaning and lube an engineer friend suggested flooding it through the seat tube with WD-40 or Liquid Wrench until it ran clean and then use aerosol white lithium grease to lube it. That has worked fine for probably 600 miles or more of riding but after 5 years it looks like that's no longer enough. I suspect a bearing is getting ground up now.
Today I put some Kroil in there, tried some tapping here and there and a heat gun. I've left it with some wooden shims putting pressure on it and letting the Kroil soak. Anyone have any words of wisdom? I may be in for a long fight with this beast.