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Help. The 142x12 mm rear axle on my shiny new meta v4 has become impossible to loosen so I can't get the rear wheel of ! Anybody ever experienced this? Any tips or tricks to get it off?
Stick the maxle qr lever into the notch and try and align it so you can get one foot onto the lever. Then put all your weight onto it. Once loosened and out, grease the axle and surfaces that contact the frame.
Really? Is this a tried and tested technique?
Try removing the lever and then clamp a pair of mole grips on to the cup shaped end and turn carefully. Using a thin strip of rubber (like the ones you get with bike lights) between the maxle and the teeth on the grips is advisable.
(this is how I've removed stuck 15mm front maxles before, can't see why it wouldn't work for you, unless its REALLY stuck)
Or just turn to tighten as hard as you can they immediately switch to undoing it......works on car road wheel bolts and other seized bolts/nuts, then when you replace it having greased it all, don't do it up so tight!!
Rubber mallet or foot. Then regressed threads and reinsert
no idea, but 10/10 for the thread title! 😛
Whiskey711 - standing on it worked a treat. The shoe has now overtaken the hammer as my favourite tool.
It's a lot harder to kill a prostitute with a shoe, though.
use copper slip or an anti seize grease not just a normal one. The original maxles are reknown for sticking and they make bikes shops a lot of money removing them.