The title kinda says it all. I’m restoring a beach cruiser I plan to use for college that got pretty rusty, but wrenches, WD40, and clamps have yet to do anything but strip the hold. Anyone have suggestions as to what I should try to remove the pedal? I’m perfectly fine with going into the abstract methods, like how rubber bands work with stripped screws and whatnot.
by 0ceanheads
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Are you turning it the right way. The left-hand pedal is reverse thread.
Drill a hole through the pedal axle and use a thick (cheap) screwdriver to wrench it off.
You might need to heat the crack with a blow torch.
Use a proper pedal wrench and penetrating fluid.
Make sure to use a 15mm open end wrench, and turn clockwise
Wait, are you not using a pedal wrench?
Rent it to multiple cycles of heat and penetrating oil. The heat gets the metals to expand and lets the oil do its work.
Then use the correct size tight fitting wrench to rotate that pedal in the correct direction.
Heat it up to cherry red and then douse it with water. You might have to do it twice. Never fails.
There is a lot of good suggestions for this, but was my experience with this problem.
Took it to bike shop.
They struggled with it for about 5 minutes.
They got them off.
Didn’t charge me a dime and told me to have a nice day.
Sometimes you don’t need to overthink this stuff.
Turn the pedal in the correct direction, that is towards the front of the bike with the bike upright. Use penetrating fluid. Heat the crank arm with a heat gun or hair dryer… And make sure you’re using the correct size wrench. There is no way this can’t come off.
This bike is probably not worth your time, which means it’s probably not worth anyone’s time. We would throw it right on the scrap heap the second we saw a pedal seized in that crank. If you value your time, and you wanna actually have a bike that is reliable to use, start with something that hasn’t already been trashed. There are loads of bikes out there.
You need a proper pedal wrench for the leverage. I lay a bike in its side and hit the wrench with a rubber mallet. I’ve never been unable to remove a pedal this way.
might be just easier to replace the crank. those arent that expensive.