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More bb questions - took my drivetrain apart to fix a clicking/pinging noise from my left crank, put it all back together again and peace and quiet for a few days, click has now started up again. I fear it may be the fact that I didn't clean the threads well enough (didn't use degreaser) so may have to take it apart again to have a go; would there be any issues with just removing the NDS crank/lockring of a BB while leaving the crank/DS of the BB in and tightened?
Edit: Mea culpa, decided to take the whole thing apart for the second time and discovered that I may have cross threaded the DS (turns out the turn-in-wrong-direction-until-it-seats trick doesn't always work); aligned it by putting the NDS in first, threaded it back in for the millionth time and now the bb seems like it's working a treat.