Pedal Help Needed

[Sprog!]

I was servicing my pedal a few days ago and forgot to tighten it up :$ , to make a long story short. It fell off.

All the bearings fell out so I collected as many as possible which wasn't many because it was in the middle of a busy road I collected 19 altogether

The pedal is a wellgo platform alloy in red if that helps

Questions:

.How many bearings should there be.

.Where do I put the bearings in the pedal, pictures/drawings/photos will help.

.What should I use grease, lube, oil. Give me some makes as I'm bound to have it lying around somewhere.

Cheers for your help. Unless you didn't help at all

Peace, Sprog

[Alex Dark]

there will be 10 in each side...

Grease ionside the pedal bearing race. place the bearings inside. put pedal over axle. nowput on outer bearing cone. screw onto axle , then out on washer then finally the nut. cram a screwdriver down tehre to hold the cone, and tighten up the nut with a 13mm socket any more problems and ill come and help

[psycholist]

Head for your local bike shop with one of the bearings and ask for a bag of bearings that size. Hopefully they'll stock them. They should be pretty cheap anyway.

1. Make sure you have the bearing cone, washer and locknut from the threaded part of the pedal axle - hopefully the end cap will have held them in the pedal body.

2. Clean all the grease and dirt from the old parts.

3. Put a layer of grease in the cup shaped rings in each side of the pedal body.

4. Press bearings one by one in a circle around this cup until you can't fit in any more without pushing existing bearings out of the bearing cup. Do this for both bearing cups using the grease to hold the bearings in position.

6. Slide the pedal axle into the pedal body making sure any seals and so on are greased and in the correct locations.

7. Clamp the pedal axle vertically in a vice and screw the bearing cone down onto it. Then fit the washer and then the locknut. Using a flat screwdriver on the flats of the bearing cone tighten it until it seats on the bearings.

9.Spin the pedal to see whether anything is catching or grinding.

10. Back the bearing cone off by about 1/4 turn from where it sits on the bearings and tighten the locknut onto it.

11. Spin the pedal and see if it runs freely.

12. If the pedal won't turn easily loosen the locknut, back the bearing cone off another 1/8 turn and tighten and test again.

13. If the pedal still has play loosen the locknut and tighten the bearing cone 1/8 of a turn.

14. Keep going until the pedal spins properly. With pedal bearings the bearing cups often drift to slightly off round after heavy use, so usually having the bearings set with a small amount of play is better than having them spin mostly freely and without bearing play but with a few tight spots.

15. Replace the axle end cap and refit to your bike.

Also don't mix old and new bearings in the same bearing cup - this will cause premature wear as each bearing in a given bag is matched in size very exactly to each other bearing in that bag, but not necessarily to bearings in any other bag the same nominal size.

[Sprog!]

there will be 10 in each side...

Grease ionside the pedal bearing race. place the bearings inside. put pedal over axle. nowput on outer bearing cone. screw onto axle , then out on washer then finally the nut. cram a screwdriver down tehre to hold the cone, and tighten up the nut with a 13mm socket any more problems and ill come and help

always confusing me alex

1. Make sure you have the bearing cone, washer and locknut from the threaded part of the pedal axle - hopefully the end cap will have held them in the pedal body.

2. Clean all the grease and dirt from the old parts.

3. Put a layer of grease in the cup shaped rings in each side of the pedal body.

4. Press bearings one by one in a circle around this cup until you can't fit in any more without pushing existing bearings out of the bearing cup. Do this for both bearing cups using the grease to hold the bearings in position.

6. Slide the pedal axle into the pedal body making sure any seals and so on are greased and in the correct locations.

7. Clamp the pedal axle vertically in a vice and screw the bearing cone down onto it. Then fit the washer and then the locknut. Using a flat screwdriver on the flats of the bearing cone tighten it until it seats on the bearings.

9.Spin the pedal to see whether anything is catching or grinding.

10. Back the bearing cone off by about 1/4 turn from where it sits on the bearings and tighten the locknut onto it.

11. Spin the pedal and see if it runs freely.

12. If the pedal won't turn easily loosen the locknut, back the bearing cone off another 1/8 turn and tighten and test again.

13. If the pedal still has play loosen the locknut and tighten the bearing cone 1/8 of a turn.

14. Keep going until the pedal spins properly. With pedal bearings the bearing cups often drift to slightly off round after heavy use, so usually having the bearings set with a small amount of play is better than having them spin mostly freely and without bearing play but with a few tight spots.

15. Replace the axle end cap and refit to your bike.

Also don't mix old and new bearings in the same bearing cup - this will cause premature wear as each bearing in a given bag is matched in size very exactly to each other bearing in that bag, but not necessarily to bearings in any other bag the same nominal size

wow I thought it would be easier :/ oh well thanks a heap for the help and the 10 odd minutes that it took for you to type it

[psycholist]

It is actually pretty easy... It takes about as long to do as it does to read the instructions once you know what you're up to.

[Sprog!]

ok I will try it later but for the time being, I've put another pedal on