Crank extractors

[DismalScientist]

This works with cotterless cranks:

Take off the dust cap. Remove the bolt (and the washer!) that is threaded into the spindle.
Get a candidate extractor and thread it into the threads that was holding on the dust cap. If that works, then it is an acceptable extractor. There should be a bolt that travels through the body of the extractor to force the spindle out of the crank arm. Often, the extractor will also act as a “socket” to remove the crank bolt that you earlier removed.

[cyclingfool]

You may have already checked with him, but Sheldon always has some info. The article is outdated, but then again, so are your cranks. Good luck.

http://sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/cotterless.html

[Geoff]

@cyclingfool 99166 wrote:

You may have already checked with him, but Sheldon always has some info. The article is outdated, but then again, so are your cranks. Good luck.

http://sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/cotterless.html

I thought I checked Sheldon Brown but somehow I overlooked that article. The key thing is that it sounds like there isn’t as much variation in cranks / extractors as I thought. The last time I needed a crank extractor, it was a Stronglight crank, and since Stronglight needs a specific tool, I got the idea that every crank needs a specific tool. But if that’s not the case, great.

[cyclingfool]

Yeah. Seems like as long as the threading meshes, you’ll be all right.

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