Thread: Tool for Bottom Bracket Tool?
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Old 01-12-12 | 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by HillRider
One caveat. Crank fixing bolts (and the bolt you need to hold a cartridge bottom bracket tool in place) are M8x1.0, not the more common M8x1.25. Be sure you get the correct thread pitch.
The guy at NAPA was trying to tel me it wasn't an 8mm bolt and I was insisting it was. He FINALLY looked in the "other" bin.
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