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Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Having aquired a pair of VP565 pedals (cheap but ok), they were looking a bit worse for wear and had notchy bearings. Time for an overhaul. Just thought i'd share with anyone interested in a bit of DIY.
What you ideally need are..
12mm socket
Long nose pliers
Fine screwdriver
Vice...maybe a pair of mole grips or a pedal spanner
Grease
A cloth or kitchen paper
I dare say if you havnt a vice, you could possible use a pedal wrench.
The main thing is to hold the pedal secure while undoing it all so you dont end up with bearings flying everywhere. You could probably do this with the pedals on the bike...the grease should hold the bearings in place during re-assembly.
My method...stand the pedal upright in the vice clamping the flats of the axle, so it can't spin. The plastic endcap is facing upwards.
Pry out the endcap with a fine screwdriver. This will expose the outboard bearings / cone / washer/ locknut.
Undo the locknut with the 12mm socket.
Remove the washer (i used long nose pliers)
Undo the cone (i used a screwdriver to spin it out.. its not tight)
Take care not to dislodge the pedal from the axle.
Take the whole thing carefully to your paper towel / cloth..and carefully withdraw the axle and collect the bearings
from each side. Dont lose them. I lay everything out on a clean piece of kitchen towel.
Clean the axle and pedals, particually the cups in the pedal body.
Run a moderate layer of grease into each cup, then place the bearings in the grease in the cup.
The grease will help to hold them in place. Looks like this now...
Carefully slide the axle in from the inboard end, then place the axle flats back into the vice so the pedal is pointing upwards again.
Take care no bearings fall out.
Spin the cone onto the axle and keep going until the pedal spins freely, but there's no play.
Dont overtighten it and dont spin the pedal too much or the cone will lose its ideal position.
Place the washer on the axle, then the locknut.
I found you could tighten the locknut without holding the hexagons on the cone. This may not be the case on other pedals.
Once tightened, make sure the pedal still spins freely and theres no end to end play.
If there is, just undo the locknut slightly, use a screwdriver to adjust the cone slightly (just press against the flats of the cone, it should spin easy enough)and then re-tighten the locknut.
Check again all is free with no play.
You can pack some more grease in the outboard end, then re-fit the plastic endcap.
Job done...took me about 1/2 hour. Quick clean up and a spray of matt black paint...
Looks and runs like a new pair ..
Any comments or criticisms welcome...
What you ideally need are..
12mm socket
Long nose pliers
Fine screwdriver
Vice...maybe a pair of mole grips or a pedal spanner
Grease
A cloth or kitchen paper
I dare say if you havnt a vice, you could possible use a pedal wrench.
The main thing is to hold the pedal secure while undoing it all so you dont end up with bearings flying everywhere. You could probably do this with the pedals on the bike...the grease should hold the bearings in place during re-assembly.
My method...stand the pedal upright in the vice clamping the flats of the axle, so it can't spin. The plastic endcap is facing upwards.
Pry out the endcap with a fine screwdriver. This will expose the outboard bearings / cone / washer/ locknut.
Undo the locknut with the 12mm socket.
Remove the washer (i used long nose pliers)
Undo the cone (i used a screwdriver to spin it out.. its not tight)
Take care not to dislodge the pedal from the axle.
Take the whole thing carefully to your paper towel / cloth..and carefully withdraw the axle and collect the bearings
from each side. Dont lose them. I lay everything out on a clean piece of kitchen towel.
Clean the axle and pedals, particually the cups in the pedal body.
Run a moderate layer of grease into each cup, then place the bearings in the grease in the cup.
The grease will help to hold them in place. Looks like this now...
Carefully slide the axle in from the inboard end, then place the axle flats back into the vice so the pedal is pointing upwards again.
Take care no bearings fall out.
Spin the cone onto the axle and keep going until the pedal spins freely, but there's no play.
Dont overtighten it and dont spin the pedal too much or the cone will lose its ideal position.
Place the washer on the axle, then the locknut.
I found you could tighten the locknut without holding the hexagons on the cone. This may not be the case on other pedals.
Once tightened, make sure the pedal still spins freely and theres no end to end play.
If there is, just undo the locknut slightly, use a screwdriver to adjust the cone slightly (just press against the flats of the cone, it should spin easy enough)and then re-tighten the locknut.
Check again all is free with no play.
You can pack some more grease in the outboard end, then re-fit the plastic endcap.
Job done...took me about 1/2 hour. Quick clean up and a spray of matt black paint...
Looks and runs like a new pair ..
Any comments or criticisms welcome...
