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Old 03-19-12 | 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by 4rcticFlowers
Too tight or not tight enough, would you say? Tightening the bolts minimizes the wobble, but only temporarily - it seems like the crankarms work the bolts loose again.
Over tightening enlarges holes more than properly torquing. Extreme cases will crack crank around hole and repeated mounting/unmounting will result in crank bottoming out on BB, this can happen faster if overtorquing.

Undertightening then riding 'em loose causes hole to be not-quite-square. This renders them Un-tightenable. They might seem tight for a couple miles but will eventually creak and get loose and hole will become even more un-square.
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