I'm having trouble removing the bolts off my female axle freecoaster hub. I've tried using a wrench and a socket the same way I would with removing a nut off a male front axle but there is no budge. What am I doing wrong here? I've never dealt with one of these. In case it matters my bicycle is a Haro Hoover.
by deltanikes
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have you tried an allen key?
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That is a male axle. Regardless, it’s always the same, sometimes you just need more leverage.
dude, you gotta take those nuts off, not use an hex-wrench on the axle itself.
get a 17 or 19 mm wrench and put your back into it. remember “righty-tighty, lefty-loosey”.
17mm socket and an extension bar, gotta put some muscle into it! And obviously lefty loosey!
For a little more context, I thought I remembered reading that the axle was female but regardless of that I did try removing the nut first before trying a hex and I tried multiple times removing the nut first. Even with help holding that bike I still can’t break that sucker loose. I’ll likely try using an impact. Hopefully the shop that put my bike together didn’t torque the shyt out of it either by mistake or just to mess around.
Weather and time can make the nuts seize, or harder to loosen. This is why it’s good to **apply a film of grease to the axle threads** when you get or build a new bike. It’s to prevent threads from seizing together. All good bike shops do this.
When you get the nuts off, be sure to wipe clean the threads on the axle and nut, then grease the axle threads before you put the nuts back on.
Places I put a bit of grease on the threads: The threads on the pedal axle, crank axle bolt threads, stem bolt threads, wheel axle threads, and for female bolt wheels, grease on the threads of the bolts.
Spray some wd-40 on the bolt threads. Let it work inside Ana try again tomorrow.