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Originally Posted by BesidesDaniel
I have, in my experience there are teeth that you slide the cranks onto... kinda like the cassettes on the back wheel.
it's for a schwinn le tour, late 80's
That's not the interesting part. The bearings press into the bottom bracket shell, the spindle presses into the bearings and there's a cut-to-fit spacer that fits between the bearings. I used to put the parts into the freezer for awhile before trying to fit them together.
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