Originally Posted by
noglider
My 1962 Rudge's pedals' wrench flats are bigger than 15mm. A 16mm wrench fits. Pretty annoying.
Ahh, yes, I recall that on some French bikes I had to double up on long-handled 16mm cone wrenches to get the pedals off, the flats also being quite narrow!
So I have a thinned 5/8" spanner here somewhere that I created just for that dilemma.
Getting pedals off of old bikes has to be one of my least-favorite things!
And I guess that I should have noticed by now that I was needing the 9/16" side of the wrench on american bikes, maybe the 15mm side worked and I didn't notice (since the spindle's two flats have such good length for the bigger wrench to work against).
I did have to use a long 15mm socket on a 2003 5.4l Ford truck spark plug yesterday, it's apparently a weird 9/16" hex and a 14mm deep socket wouldn't quite fit on it far enough for decent torque.