Pedal Removal - Page 2

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When you end up mounting your new pedals, don't forget to put grease or some anti-seize. What kind of cranks do you have? Sometimes, depending on the design, the threaded insert for the pedal, in a CF crank arm, can come loose with aggressive wrench action on a pedal.

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sorry righty loosey

I leveraged myself on it (on my trainer, snapping off the wrenches) so for now, I got a Look on the left and a SPD MTB shimano on the right, it's great.....

105 cranks

My shop put the grease on the threads when I picked them up today.

NO! On the right side, i.e. the side where your left food, and probably, your left leg would be, it's lefty loosey! It's really hard to get a pedal off by tightening it.

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I thought both pedals were LH

Ok..... I'm Polish........ don't mind me . Thank you BTW

I assume you got it off, now?

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Suppose it can be a bit confusing. If you're using the allen key from the back of the spindle on the RH (drive-side) pedal, then you would be trying to turn it clockwise to loosen. From the pedal side (front), that's counter-clockwise or "lefty-loosey".

I never use an allen wrench on pedals, so didn't realize you were breaking those. You really can't apply much torque with an allen key without rounding it off or breaking it, as you found out. As Alienator said, a big pedal wrench is the way to go. If you don't want to invest in tools, just use your LBS. Hopefully they will do these little jobs for you while you wait, with a minimal or free charge. Plus you can learn a lot just watching....like grease on the threads

hehe, it didn't dawn on me what you said in your 1st post, just cause I was so mad at this . I'm getting another 15mm wrench, and I should be all set (although now I've tightened it soo hard that it will be fun getting it off). Thank you for helping me through my brainfart .

I'm suprised that Look didn't go with the typical wrench bolt. They also made a larger allen size, I had to get another wrench cause my normal bike tool was too small.

Merged threads to save space...

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