My roommate was tryin to replace the pedals on his mountainbike, and one of them is stuck. It's not crossthreaded as far as I can tell, and we've basically rounded off (stripped) the pedal bolt tryin to get it out. He even took the whole crank arm off and put it in a vice and tried to get it out, but it wouldnt budge.

Can someone weld a wrench or somethin to the bolt to try to get it out?

5/15/2006 9:49:36 AM

let me guess it was the left pedal...

which has backwards threads...

5/15/2006 9:52:32 AM

You have PM

5/15/2006 10:00:56 AM

I also have some differential guards Im going to need welded on a 1998 Land Rover. Who can deliver?

5/15/2006 10:08:51 AM

haha, we know it has backwards threads. He put somekinda "lube" on the thread before he put the pedal in, and we're thinkin it seized it up.

and it's the RIGHT crank btw. It does not thread backwards.

[Edited on May 15, 2006 at 11:21 AM. Reason : .]

5/15/2006 11:17:15 AM

PM sent Steve

5/15/2006 11:40:54 AM

Vice Grips?

5/15/2006 12:18:28 PM

take the crank arm off, cut off the pedal, drill it, then ez-out it

problem solved

5/15/2006 12:43:19 PM

Yeah, unless the threads are really seized.

Then time to either replace or Helicoil the crank.

5/15/2006 12:50:19 PM

PMed ya back GK

5/15/2006 12:50:39 PM

get some better cranks

5/15/2006 1:42:24 PM

They're pretty decent cranks as far as I know...and we dont really wanna go through the trouble of drilling the sumbitch out.

5/15/2006 3:35:20 PM

cant you apply heat (read: blowtorch), use vice grips and remove the pedal?

the metal should expand enough to release the threads

5/15/2006 3:42:08 PM

pb blasta?

5/15/2006 4:23:26 PM