How To Remove Mountain Bike Crankset
Step by step guide how to remove crankset without puller.
How to remove mountain bike crankset. You want to avoid hand injuries. With the proper tools anyone can do this. If your crank doesn t skip this step. Closing our mountain bike crankset reviews list is the mowa five xc mtb mountain bike triple crankset.
The 2 bolt design is for shimano cranks. I will learn how. This video shows how to remove a crank arm without a tool on an xtype race face mountain bike crank. The cranks attach to the bicycle at the bottom bracket and have a set of two to three chain rings on the right hand side crank.
Loosening the pinch bolts will allow you to remove the crank arm from the rest of the crankset. Cranks two crank arms are mounted either side of the from at 180 degrees to each other connected by an axle the axle is threaded through the bottom bracket bb screwed into the frame s bb shell located at the meeting point of the seat tube and down tube. Step 1 the first thing you need to do to remove a bicycle crank without a puller is to have protection on your hands. This video shows how to remove an old crankset on a mountain bike and install a new one.
The method in this video will not work for all mountain bikes just those with built in self. Enjoy saving money and do it yourself. This makes it a versatile model that can be used on a variety of bikes by different riders. Yes you can remove a bike crank without using a crank puller.
Not all cranks have these pinch bolts. For this type of crank you also need to remove the plastic pre load screw on the left or non drive side of the bike. This particular crankset comes with crank arm length ranging from 170 to 175.