Are there still tools for this lockring? I can’t find any online. But I also don’t know what to search for to be honest. Something with 4 little round pins on it I guess. Thanks!
by Slow_Warthog2181
Are there still tools for this lockring? I can’t find any online. But I also don’t know what to search for to be honest. Something with 4 little round pins on it I guess. Thanks!
by Slow_Warthog2181
11 Comments
You just undo the bolt.
It will come out with it.
It’s a very basic system that is still used by SRAM; for the “4 small” holes, you need a pin wrench, like Unior Bike Tools Pin Wrench 253/2DP
It is most likely a self extractor setup, turn the middle part with an Allen key counterclockwise to extract the crank off the spindle.
Why remove it?
This is the crank extractor cover. It is threaded into the crank arm and will only come out if you use a pin spanner. No need for a 4 pin as a 2 pin spanner will work fine. Removing the crank bolt will only serve to remove the crank arm from the BB spindle and leave the cover in the crank arm.
What are you trying to do? If you want to remove the crank from the spindle, you have self extracting crank bolts on there. When you turn the hex bolt counter clockwise, it will start to pull the crank off the spindle.
If you need to actually remove the crank bolt, you can use a pin spanner, or some chainring bolt tools have the correct 2 pin dust cap spanner built in.
yeah a 2 pin spanner works fine, don’t need the actual 4 pin tool for that
Spanner. Or it’s part of the bigger bolt. But if that’s the case they usually don’t have holes
Park makes a in spanner for this, the red one I believe. But as others have said this is a self extracting lockring so only remove it if you don’t want this to be a self extracting crankset anymore. Meaning you would need a crank puller tool to remove them
Pin spanner. One of those tools you do everything you can to avoid buying until you have no choice but to buy it.
If you have snap ring pliers, you have the option to spend an afternoon trying to make them do the job, and then buy the pin spanner.
Sooo, nobody’s going to ask why you appear to be using a cooler full of bottles as a bike stand?