OctoberKing
New Member
- Location
- Louisiana
Hello,
I recently uncovered an old Surly LHT that was in an old flooded outbuilding. I live in southeast Louisiana and back in 2016 we had some terrible flooding here.
So after getting the bike home I realized that I was going to need to replace the Crankset, Cassette, derailleur and Bottom Bracket . The cranks spin easily as well as the cassette, I was surprised that they were not frozen solid but the Chainrings were destroyed.
I've decided to replace the drive-train with a Sram NX Eagle Dub Groupset and a Sram Dub English Bottom Bracket, I hope I haven't jumped the gun here, without knowing much about any of this. I plan on using the bike for just local rides and pleasure, so no need in a high end touring drive-train.
My question is this, the bolts that hold on the crankarms are rusted like you could imagine and I'm concerned I won't be able to remove them without ruining the 8mm hex, any ideas on how to go about this?
Also will I need a special tool to remove the bottom bracket?
Thanks!
I recently uncovered an old Surly LHT that was in an old flooded outbuilding. I live in southeast Louisiana and back in 2016 we had some terrible flooding here.
So after getting the bike home I realized that I was going to need to replace the Crankset, Cassette, derailleur and Bottom Bracket . The cranks spin easily as well as the cassette, I was surprised that they were not frozen solid but the Chainrings were destroyed.
I've decided to replace the drive-train with a Sram NX Eagle Dub Groupset and a Sram Dub English Bottom Bracket, I hope I haven't jumped the gun here, without knowing much about any of this. I plan on using the bike for just local rides and pleasure, so no need in a high end touring drive-train.
My question is this, the bolts that hold on the crankarms are rusted like you could imagine and I'm concerned I won't be able to remove them without ruining the 8mm hex, any ideas on how to go about this?
Also will I need a special tool to remove the bottom bracket?
Thanks!