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Took me 10 years to realize I was greasing pedal threads wrong
Honestly, I used to slather grease on the entire pedal spindle before threading it into the crank arm. Then last month a old timer at a shop in Portland told me to only grease the threads, not the shoulder where the pedal body meets the crank. Turns out that extra grease can make the pedal creep outward while you ride and strip the crank threads. Has anyone else had that aha moment with a basic task you thought you had down?
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murray.drew1mo ago
@miles_young59 I'm with the old timer on this one, seen plenty of aluminum cranks get wallowed out from pedal bodies walking on the shoulder. A thin film on the threads is all you need, the grease just keeps corrosion from welding things together.
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the_joseph1mo ago
Thirty years without a single issue? That's a solid track record, honestly.
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miles_young591mo ago
Might be overthinking it a bit, honestly. I've been greasing pedal threads the same way for thirty years and never had a pedal work its way loose or strip anything. The old timer's advice sounds good in theory but in practice a little extra grease on the shoulder isn't going to cause that much harm unless you're really piling it on. Most stripped crank threads I've seen came from cross-threading or just plain cheap parts, not from too much grease. It's probably fine either way as long as you're not using a whole tube on one pedal.
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