Shimano hollowtech crank tool

Posted on Wed 1st, November 2023

• #1

drn22

Hi

Does any kind soul happen to have one of these I could borrow please? Brockley/crofton park area (SE4)

Many thanks in advance

Dan
• #2

neilbah

if you have undone the two pinch bolts then the plastic tension bolt shouldnt be that tight, there are many things that will undo it. I often use a plastic tyre lever as i have one thats the exact width of the splines but ive been known to use a load of allen keys side by side, a blunt dinner knife out the cutlery draw or big spoon handle.. just jam something in there and see if it turns, even an old usb plug or summin.
• #3

drn22

Haha, didn't realise it was that easy - thanks for the tip!
• #4

SRAMbo in reply to @drn22

Yep, I've got one and am in SE4. However as posted above, that bolt should only be done up finger tight so you could improvise something to remove it.
• #5

drn22 in reply to @SRAMbo

Thank you, but thanks to neilbah's wise words a bottle opener has done the trick

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.