Originally Posted by
Esos1
Hello all,
I’ve been refurbishing pedals over the last few days and one of the sets is a pair of KKT Top Run that I really like the look of except one of the pedals has a bent cage? … I’m not sure what you call this part of the pedal to be honest. Can anything be done about this? Can I bend it back? Would that be a dumb thing to do? They work fine as far as I can tell otherwise. Oh and just for the record, these pedals came to me like this, I didn’t break it this time! Any help or insight would be much appreciated,
I can think of a couple of approaches to this:
Clamp the pedal firmly in a bench vise in its "natural" position, take something like a blunt cold chisel and a big hammer, and whack it back into shape. Or
Find a long bolt that fits through the cutout in the end of the quill and rests on the spindle end. Thread it through the quill from the outside, fit a washer and nut. Now just wind the nut out against the washer to pull the quill back into some sort of shape.
These pedals are pretty much just held together by the frame and pressure on the bearings, just be sure the endplates are straight and parallel. I think the outer end might be bent, which will need to be corrected - probably just remove the spindle, pop out the sleeve, straighten the plate, replace the sleeve (you just made it harder, oh well) and replace the spindle. If that fails, most likely at the point you can't get the sleeve to fit back in the frame, you could try removing the inside endplate at one side to make room for reassembly, but then you need to fix it firmly when it goes back on, which will require that there's still enough metal left to swage it. I would have a go, with every expectation that it would ultimately be a waste of time, but I don't charge myself by the hour.