Hello! I am trying to remove this and it’s super tight (or I’m doing it wrong). Suggestions? This is my set up.
by StillStrike7646
Hello! I am trying to remove this and it’s super tight (or I’m doing it wrong). Suggestions? This is my set up.
by StillStrike7646
11 Comments
Are you aware it’s reverse threaded
You’re gonna need a bigger wrench
Is it ITA or BSA?
Check it carefully, so that you know which is the right direction of rotation. In addition some WD40 or similiar over night might help. You can slo put the wheels on and the bike on the floor. Then you can step on it with more power than do it with your hands.
You should remove the left (non-drive) side first. Then, the right (drive) side BB shell are left-handed thread, clockwise to remove it.
You have just found out why most cycle shops use either a long breaker bar sometimes with a piece of pipe over the end for extra leverage or powered impact wrench.
When properly tightened up and even more if they have been in a while regular small hand tools just won’t do the job.
Put the tool in a vice and use the frame for leverage.
Put a breaker bar on that socket
Thread a long bolt through the whole unit and use washers and nut to hold the bb tool tight n square, that way it won’t slip and damage the teeth when you use a big wrench and ext. bar.
Here are some last resort tips that might help: Tighten the BB-socket with a suitable bolt to the crank arm hole and twist the socket with a wrench. Heat up the threads on the frame. The paint can easily take 200 C that should loosen even the most stuck BB’s.
Some prefer mounting the BB tool to vice and twisting the frame as it gives a bit more leverage.
Put the tool in a bench vise and turn the frame. Be sure of thread direction. BSA BB’s are left hand thread on drive side.
Drive side reverse thread so clockwise to loosen non drive side normal anticlockwise to loosen 2 bigger wrench or get a pipe over it it’s so difficult to remove these otherwise