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Disassemble Persons Supreme Pedal

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New to all this so please bear with me. Can someone explain how to remove the bearings and outer sleeve from the pedal shaft on Persons Supreme pedals? Is there a video that covers this? I have the pedal blocks and end caps removed already.
Any help would be appreciated.
 
New to all this so please bear with me. Can someone explain how to remove the bearings and outer sleeve from the pedal shaft on Persons Supreme pedals? Is there a video that covers this? I have the pedal blocks and end caps removed already.
Any help would be appreciated.
The bolts that hold the blocks in also hold the pedal together. If you have removed those the pedals will come apart. Sometimes the grease has glued the parts together but it will come apart. Once you remove the outer cap you will see the nut holding cones on the spindle. There should be a keyed washer under the nut then the cone. I advise doing this over some sort of container to catch the bearings
 
So there are no clips or other fasteners holding those cups on each end of the axle shaft?

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Does that little round disc on the opposite end of the pedal threads just pull off then to allow the cup to come off?
 
Ok thank you. I wanted to try and straighten one of the shafts.
As @saladshooter said unfortunately this style axle can't be serviced beyond trying to force some grease into the bearing races.

As far as trying to get the axle a little more straight-
I would rebuild the pedal (adding a bit of grease before you do) and then put it in your bench vise with some wood over the jaws to keep from marring the blocks. Then you can either use a loose crank arm or if you're lucky and have one of the handy straightener bars shown in this thread you can use either to straighten out the axle.

 
With the whole pedal assembly in the vise and you start torquing on the axle threads aren't you just going to bend the end cap plates and not the axle itself?
 
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Unfortunately pedals like that are disposable. If you want to use them you do the best you can to repair them. If you damage them trying, you damage them trying. Be careful. It is usually done with the pedal fully assembled. Many types of Schwinn pedals are exactly like this internally, with unserviceable bearings and soft shafts that are prone to bending. Some even have the cages riveted on, not that it makes any difference if you can take the cages off only to find this inside. It's an embarrassment, and was super common several decades ago. For comaprison, the cheapest $13 plastic pedals at Walmart now have hardened shafts and fully serviceable bearings.

The bar tool sure helps if you can find one. That and a vise. You could use a crank or something, but you would never be able to tell when you have the pedal axle straight. You would wind up bending it over and over again. With that long bar hanging off the end, it's obvious whether it wobbles or not. A while back a CABEr was making the bar tool but apparently no more.

https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/keithbar-pedal-straightener.172653/

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I could make a bar like that at work but I don't think it's worth the trouble without being able to remove the axle shaft from the sleeve.
 
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