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I am jinxed, had a local bike shop which is well thought off fit one of these. After a winter of it working well it has started to creak again. Shop has tried everything, refacing the sleeve, checking every thing else on the bike that might creak. Fitting several different crank and and bottom bracket combinations and it still creaks. They now think sleeve or bond to shell has failed and it needs to be removed. Any suggestions who might be able to do this or is frame scrap?
As long as it's not a carbon frame you can take it out and put it back in numerous times with a headset press/extractor. I've made a tool to do this easily from a few cheap bits and pieces from b and q. I've just fitted another one on friday which is why it's fresh in my mind.
If it was fitted correctly with plenty of the loctite that is supplied with it if be really surprised if it was able to move inside the frame and cause a creak. <span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Are you sure it's the bottom bracket creaking? I'd check all of the other usual suspect like skewers, headset, bars and stem before going down that route. </span>
Aluminium frame so hopefully this will work, used Loctite 638 as no glue supplied when I bought the sleeve from Ribble. Have tried everything, different wheels, headset, sharpest / saddle, bars and stem.