ISIS Cranks off center

Tell this to whoever you bought it from, but it's probably not enough to
be a problem.

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Yes, I was going to say the short answer is that .115" is not enough to
notice or worry about. But on the other hand, a guy thorough enough to
calculate the .115" in the first place might be a meticulous guy who
wants perfection. In that case, I'm not sure what's the right way to
make it perfect, but I'll add that riding the thing may tend to make it
imperfect anyway. 🙂

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ride with it and dont complain. make sure the cranks are tight enough
though.
i modded my profiles to fit the hub better by taking off a spacer so
the left crank is closer to the bearing than the right it. and i dont
notice the difference

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gordito8me said:

it's like running across the highway at rush hour. Dangerous, stupid,
but not really that fun.

skianduniaddict said:

never give 4 teenagers a camera... they go crazy

johnfoss said:

Yes, being old makes you stupid.

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it isn't a big error, but if it doesn't have shims, one has been taken
off and put back on, or is noticably cranked down harder, also,
bearings move quite a bit if there are no shims.

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I took the retention bolts out of the crank arms to compare.

The right arm is tightened to the point were the bolt washers bottom
out with the hub.

The arm has .115 inch seperating the end of the hub and the bottom of
the crank rentention bolt bore.

This tells me that the Right arm is either overly cranked on or
deffective, or the right side of the hub is defective. I say this
because there is no more space to thighten the Right arm if it ever
comes loose. We all know it will come loose with use.

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OldDrone said:

The right arm is tightened to the point were the bolt washers bottom out
with the hub.

Before I thought you were just being picky but now I think that you
truly found a defect that is worth a complaint and a replacement from
whomever you bought it from. If you get that replaced now you might
have just saved yourself a headache.

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ya i think you might have a defected one, go back to the guy and ask for
a replacment part or your mony back.

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Try swapping over the cranks to see if the right crank bottoms out on
the left side, or the left crank bottoms out on the right side.
That'll tell you where the problem is. (Don't ride it though, or your
pedals will fall off).

If it's the crank, then tell the people you bought it from, and ask if
they want to send you a new crank - If they are happy with it, and it
becomes a problem a few months down the line, then you can go back to
them, point out that you reported it at the time, and you should get it
replaced.

If it's the hub, then I'd ask for the whole thing to be swapped. You
don't want to be messing about relacing wheel to change a hub if it
starts to play up.

STM

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Problem solved:

The problem is that the cranks were installed without the spindle crank
spacers.

This spacer slides over the spindle, rest against the inner bearing
race, and creates a stop for the crank to rest against. This causes
the crank to always be the same distance from the center of the hub. A
great feature. Unfortunately, if it is not included and the cranks are
torqued down you will will deform the cranks.

Fortunately, I called Unicycle.com and told them what the problem is
and they are sending me new cranks, crank bolts, and the missing
spindle crank spacers. Yeah!

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