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Old 06-25-23 | 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by psychling78
Simply cannot get the cranks off with either an old LIFU crank puller or a beautiful Park BB puller. There is literally no room left to crank the puller anymore, and the spider isn't budging. Ideas welcome.
try a park CCP-44 puller.... i just used one on an octa-link crankset last night. Easy-peasy, with extra cheesy.

You MIGHT get away with placing a DIME in there as a plug, too... i'd use two for strength....
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