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What he said plus use a toestrap to hold the crank to somewhere in the frame, use your own judgement, chain stays are usually well solid. Insert your 8mm Allen, then use a handlebar or a seatpost as breaker bar and push hard counter clockwise.
Make sure your extracting nut is back in place with all threads well engaged, and put it in the floor. SRAM recommends a massive torque of 50Nm, sometimes I even struggle to remove my own cranks. -
Bit of a topic dredge but…
Am struggling to remove dub cranks from a frame, have tried handlebar over Allen key, impact driver, and setting torque wrench to 100 but cannot get the bolt to shift. Any suggestion? Am guessing choosing the hottest day of the year wasn’t a great idea… but my garage is relatively cool.
@brommers can I borrow your difficult crank tool- could you make me one?
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Any tips for getting a SRAM Red crankset off? Outer bolt on the NDS came off easily, but the 8mm bolt underneath is refusing to shift at all. Attempting to turn counterclockwise, can stand on the crank arm & stand on the Allen key without any movement. Have just sprayed some penetrating spray in there but any other tips gratefully received