M-gineering wrote: > I'd be very surprised if it wasn't due to inserting one of the cotters > from the wrong side
Yep, that was it. It's been 30 year since I worked on cottered cranks. Some things are best left forgotten! ;-)
I remember seeing a bike once with the left crank arm installed backwards!
Chas. Colerich
Oakland, CA USA
>> verktyg wrote:
>> One other thing that I forgot about the devil's spawn, If the angles
>> on the cotters weren't closely matched and/or the cotter holes in the
>> crank arms were not accurately machined, the cranks might not line up
>> 180° apart.
>>
>> We had a bike come in for service once that had cranks off at least
>> 20°! I can't remember if it was due to mismatched crank arms or what.