I just bought this bike ( hyper cycle explorer) and I wanted to remove the pedal block. I have all the tools to do it but I can find a tutorial on YouTube of my type of pedal block. Do you guys can help me with that ?
by Direct-Hearing-1595
I just bought this bike ( hyper cycle explorer) and I wanted to remove the pedal block. I have all the tools to do it but I can find a tutorial on YouTube of my type of pedal block. Do you guys can help me with that ?
by Direct-Hearing-1595
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Its a cup and cone bottom bracket there are special tools to take it off. I used a hammer and a screwdriver to take mine off. lol
The first picture is drive side and you actually don’t need to remove it, although it’s easier to clean and re grease when removed. It’s usually removed with a 36mm spanner that slips off easily. So it helps to put a bolt with a big washer on both ends through the shell to hold the wrench on as you wail on it with a mallet. The drive side cup is almost always a left hand thread, so remember righty loosey. The non drive side is conventional right hand thread and easy to remove once you take off the lock ring, which it seems you already have done.
Large crescent wrench both sides.
Some options , between 8 to 10 usd
https://preview.redd.it/qh5j8ko5mqef1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=4de62340812561f14eea5d166cb1845d85ea120e
As others stated, you don’t necessarily need specialized tools for either side, but they do help, so consider:
[tool for non drive side](https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/adjustable-cup-wrench-hcw-11?category=Crank+%26+Bottom+Bracket)
[tool for drive side](https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/crank-and-bottom-bracket-wrench-hcw-4?category=Crank+%26+Bottom+Bracket)
Multiple people have already put the wrench down that would allow you to remove the fixed cup.
What may not be quickly understood until you ever try to remove one of these things is that if you buy a closed-end wrench with the two flat sides to fit the fixed cup, if The cup has been frozen for a while, which my guess it is, you’re going to basically flex the wrench so that it distorts and it comes flying off.
The classic way of solving this is you take your cone spanner wrenches, which you use to adjust, of course, your old cup and ball cones, and And many of the old ones would actually have holes in them. If they didn’t have holes, you may want to actually drill some holes the size of a quick release skewer.
So what you do is you put your new bottom bracket wrench for the fixed cup wrench on. You then put your cup span wrench on top of it, and then you take your quick release skewer and stick it through your bottom bracket hole. Then you put your other cup spanner wrench on the other side, and you would take a socket and place it on top of it, and then screw down your bolt so you could make sure that the wrench was clamped by your quick-release skewer.
Now you obviously could come up with different ways of doing this, but many a bike mechanic has done this.
I’ve run into some incredibly frozen bottom brackets, and hopefully you have a pipe big enough to fit over the end of your fixed bottom bracket tool if the cup is frozen. I have never actually bent a wrench, however I remember with one bike I had it down on the floor with my wife holding it with like three feet of pipe and I was convinced that something was gonna break, but eventually it went.
Finally, if you don’t do this a lot, just make sure you remember it’s reverse threads. You’re really going to feel stupid if you think you’re loosening something, torquing on it like crazy, and then you find out you’ve actually been tightening it.