Pedal/Crank Issue: Pop/Clicking
06-22-11, 09:09 PM
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Pedal/Crank Issue: Pop/Clicking
i barely scrapped my right pedal on a curb, now my pedal or crank is making a clicking/popping noise when force is pressed downward on the pedal... when i stand to charge, the problem is most predominant. has anybody had a similar issue? any takers?
06-22-11, 09:17 PM
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take the pedal off grease the axle, Take the lock nut off, clean the bearings and relube and seat it correctly, Most likely you have a cheap pedal with loose ballbearings and you damaged the surface from the impact,
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Chainring bolts?
Could be anything, really.
Could be anything, really.
06-22-11, 09:18 PM
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could be the bottom bracket... not really sure... the noise is consistant at the peak of my pedal rotation
06-22-11, 11:35 PM
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i recommend removing the problematic pedal, removing the spindle and inspecting the bearings to see if anything got dislodged from their cups
06-24-11, 12:14 AM
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I had a similar thing a few weeks ago. I thought it was my pedal which is about dead anyways so I didn't worry about it. A few days later my crank came way loose; I rounded it in the before I could stop about half a block later. Replaced the arm to hear the sound still there...turns out it's the BB which is completely effed. I was planning to replace it anyways, but still...not a cheap thing to now need to replace before I was planning.
06-24-11, 09:01 AM
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I had the same problem, there was a tiny bit of wabble in my crank arms is I'm guessing what it ended up being. I took off the left crank arm (had omniums) and reattached, making sure it was nice and tight. problem went away
06-24-11, 10:43 AM
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I had this same problem a while back, but it wasn't after hitting the pedal, they were just clicking at the same point in every stroke.
I took off the pedals, greased the threads, and put a couple drops of 3 in 1 around the edges of where the pedal axle connects to try to get some inside the pedal. Put them back on and the noise was gone.
I took off the pedals, greased the threads, and put a couple drops of 3 in 1 around the edges of where the pedal axle connects to try to get some inside the pedal. Put them back on and the noise was gone.
