On 14 Jan 2006 11:42:23 -0800, "montyzuma" <
[email protected]>
wrote:
>Can anyone shed any light on exactly how the M960/760 cranks are
>attached to the BB axle? Any way of getting them apart in order to
>fiddle with the axle length for purposes of reducing the Q factor?
It's Octalink. With an XTR, if it's a V1 Octalink double, you might
be able to swap to the longer (triple) Octalink BB, or with either V1
or V2 you might get away with shimming the BB out from the BB shell a
bit on the right if the left crank has enough chainstay clearance.
There's nothing that you can do to change the position of the crank on
the BB shaft without reducing the amount of spline engagement, and
there's not enough of that to begin with. Octalink BB units are not
supplied in a variety of lengths like tapered square, so you don't
have much to work with if you want to fine-tune something. (In
theory, this is a Feature; the cranks made for use with an Octalink BB
are all supposed to be set up for the same BB shaft length,
eliminating the need to have multiple BB versions. In practice,
things are not always this simple.)
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