Originally Posted by
CravenMoarhead
ok, here's the update.
I pressed out the left side cotter, greased and reinstalled a new one and pressed it in with a vise.
No more noise, I only went around the block but I would have heard it in that amount of time...BUT riddle me this: everything feels fine when I'm pedaling, but when I coast (which I do downhills when I am lazy in the morning) and I rotate the cranks slowly just to stretch my legs I can still feel play somewhere, but I can't tell where.
So noise has stopped, beer is quite possibly owed but I want to wait til after i ride it in tomorrow to make that call. I think I'm gonna swap out the pedals like mparker says and see if that makes any difference.
If the noise reappears in a while, you have a cotter pin/spindle problem, that is the effect of the grease will dissipate and the small amount of play will produce "squeek". Definitely try and replace the pedals, if only by borrowing some to check if the problem is there. Have you checked your freewheel for lateral play ?