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Finally fixed a stubborn pedal wobble after 2 weekends of tinkering

Been chasing a wobble on my left pedal for almost a month, swapped bearings and even tried a different crank arm. Then last Friday I noticed the pedal threads were slightly cross-threaded from the factory, recut them with a tap and it's smooth now. Anyone else run into pedal threads being off from new?
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claire872
claire8721mo ago
Wait, from the factory? That is insane to me. I've been wrenching for years and I've never seen a brand new pedal come cross-threaded. My buddy bought a set of Crank Brothers last month and one of them wouldn't thread on at all, we thought he just got a bad batch. I would have been so mad spending two weekends on something that should have worked right out of the box.
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susan_adams
Was the tap size standard or did you have to hunt for something specific?
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the_drew
the_drew1mo ago
Buddy of mine found the same thing on a brand new set of RaceFace pedals.
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