Originally Posted by
dabac
I've never seen cotters protrude that much. Have you been partially successful, or did they come on the bike like that?
That's how they were when I got to them. It's possible someone tried to work on them in the past.
I think I must be doing something wrong. I got out the spindle on one of the pedals and tried to use it as a punch. I've been hammering for a good 15 minutes and it hasn't budged. The top is mushroomed now and the punch is starting to bend a little.
I looked into the hole on one of the cotters and it looks like it's screwed in. So I tried to grip the cotter with some vice grips and see if it would give but still no dice, and now the end is even more messed up from the teeth on the grip.
This really sucks. I was hoping to be able to get all the paint off today but this is taking way longer than expected.