Way back in my bike shops days I was working on a beach cruiser with the big American BB shell and was told the crank made a lot of noise. I pulled the crank out and found that along with some of a normal bearing unit was a Wald headset just loosely slipped over the one piece crank.
I replaced the whole mess with a Wald BB and life was good.
I should have kept that headset/BB combo.
dave
|