crank bolts loose again..and again!
RideOrDieDan said:
I have Race Face Deus crank set. the bolt that tightens the drive side and holds it on keeps coming loose. If I tighten it too much the bearings seem to become pressed and harder to rotate. What could I do top stop this? Lock tight? Any ideas?
I'm having somewhat of a similar problem but with the isis bb/cranks. I had the RF prodigy xc cranks/bb, but the crank splines were all worn down, so I bought FSA v-drive extreme cranks arms and slapped them on using the old bb/chainrings/crankbolts.
After my first ride of about 5 miles, the crank bolts were loose by about a full turn: but there was no play on the cranks.
Funny thing is that with the old cranks, only the non-drive side crank would come loose, but now, both bolts are coming loose. So.. there must have been some sort of installation problem on my part. I read through the install instructions on the RF site and this is what I notice so far and wanted to see if anyone can suggest anything I can do:
On my crankbolts, there are 2 washers. On the instructions, I notice only 1 washer in the pictures. So i use 1 or 2?
Additionally, on my setup, there is a thin washer that goes between the crank arm and the crank stopper flange.
I'm guessing MAYBE all these washers provide too much space and the crank bolt is unable to be bolted all the way in?
Lastly, there is a oh-so-slight play from the BB.. Ican't see it move visually, but I can feel it when pushing and pulling the crank arms with myhands. Is this something I need to worry about.. like get a new BB asap?
Thanks in advance.