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Remove Cranks and bottom bracket
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What tool would I use to remove these cranks and bottom bracket? The cranks don't have any pinch bolts and they say 'Hollowtech'. The photos show after I have taken the dust covers off.I quickly got overwhelmed with how many different types of bottom brackets there are. I'm new at this and need help! Thanks for your advice |
Looks like you have a Shimano HollowTech 1 crankset, which is the older 3 piece type crankset. See Park Tool for a good description of tools and procedure to remove.
https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair...icle-section-1 Good luck. |
Originally Posted by Eggman84
(Post 20064613)
Looks like you have a Shimano HollowTech 1 crankset, which is the older 3 piece type crankset. See Park Tool for a good description of tools and procedure to remove.
https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair...icle-section-1 Good luck. OP needs a crank puller with a wide plunger. Or an old puller and some improvising skills. |
The original Hollowtech cranksets were 3-piece cranks with an Octalink cartridge bottom bracket. Octalink was Shimano's proprietary version of a splined crankset/BB interface. There were others like ISIS, which were similar. You can generally use the same crank puller for these different splined interfaces.
The Park Tool CWP-7 crank puller can be used to remove the crank arms from the spindle. If you use a tool like the CWP-7 that can do square taper and splined cranks, be sure to use the wide plunger for your splined setup. A Shimano cartridge bottom bracket tool like the Park Tool BBT-32 can be used to remove the bottom bracket from the frame. |
There are many companies making extraction tools, if you live in a town city print the photos go to a decent LBS, you need a special tool to pull off the crank arm, then as mentioned another tool to remove the BB, also type in on Google tool for removing "Shimano hollowtech"
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