Baiku

Has anyone ever had a issue with their radish where the frame fills with water? how its getting in there I dont know. the poles always in and tight and theres a massive seat from the 30's on it covering all that and the bolts are in the holes.

Also there must be a lack of drain holes. I took part of the BB out and it was like a waterfall of water. one of the cups and part of the bearing is rusted solid to the bike. heating it and the like wont remove it and the cups teeth broke. so frames pretty much done. I think the rear of the bike will still remove though.


Yes I leave it out since its to big to fit in my shed most the time. but I leave other bikes aswell and they are fine.

If you have a radish I suggest removing the BB and greasing the threads.

This must be why this was Bottom bracket #3.

THis is proberly my fault for leaving it out in the rain though. but still it should have drained not filled the frame to the point it was like a waterfall when I removed the BB lol.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Gareth

This happens on one of my bikes with a steel frame.........the frame fills with water when left outside.

I assume it is the pedal crank group-set side cup that has rusted in.

Does the shell cup have flats on it? if so is it possible to get the flats into the jaws of an engineers bench vice and then turn the frame to unscrew the bearing cup; the whole frame horizontal is best. This method has never let me down when working on bikes up to about 40 years old and so far I have never needed heat.

When you have stripped the bottom bracket from the shell drill it to take a grease nipple. I prefer to use threaded conical grease nipples but a zerk nipple will do. Then you will want to cap the frame tubes internally. I use red plastic hydraulic pipe storage caps, and these pipe caps stop excess grease pushing up the frame tubes and water running down to the bottom bracket. Assemble the bottom bracket: I like to remove the balls from the carriers (and throw the carriers away) and install only the balls plus an additional one ball on each side and fill the bottom bracket shell with an EP2 general purpose lithium grease. Then once a month or so put a pump or two of fresh grease into the bottom bracket allowing a little grease to push out around the shaft.

My Falcon Explorer hybrid (like all my other bikes) had this mod done to it 11 years and 44,000 miles ago and I am still on the original bottom bracket and ball bearings and I only grease it twice a year if it is lucky!

Baiku

Yeah ive actualy did that to a past bike of mine. its odd though I put this BB in not a long time ago. and its the none drive side. its a sealed BB and somehow one of the sealed bearings that usaly dosnt come off is stuck with the cup on one side. the cup is one of them new kinds. I have the tool to remove them. its literaly stuck and keeps breaking insted of comming out dispite the heat I use or chemicals. I knew I should have put a traditinal BB in it.

In the end I dont mind to much. I bought a new 29er recently and my old one I dont wanna let go of because its got value to me still. ill put it on the xtracycle attachment if I can fit it.

thanks for that tip I may do that to my other bike.