McDave I think it was just a bad angle on the photo but I Just went out to the shop and installed it again and measured to the threads. 68.00 mm right on the deadlies so I'm good to go and you Kurt are a steely eyed bicycle man. Thanks for saving me a lot of trouble. Now I can get on with the rest of it. I forgot I do have a Schwinn approved Sugino 3 piece crankset so I gotta get me a bottom bracket and see what I come up with. Its pretty heavy though and I'd like to go to alloy crankset or at least cranks if I can get a deal. I have a co worker with an old bike he bought in the late 70's with a pretty decent crankset so he says. I have no idea what brand it is but he said I could have the whole bike for nothing so I'm gonna see if I can scrounge somethin off of it and if not I'll clean it up and put it on CL