<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Won’t budge , and tool is near on useless it’s bent to buggery </span>
PlusGas for a few days, then hammer taps on a tool. Short sharp shocks are far better at freeing stuff than sustained pressure IME.
Where are you? I have the socket tool rather than the spanner. Actually, I have the spanner as well, but that's not relevant.
I’m in the Cannock Chase area , where did yo get the socket type ?
I'm in south Yorkshire but I got the socket type from Abbey Tools from, I think, Sigma Sports.
Cheers Onzadog , is there any way removing without a specific tool , the bb is goosed anyway
Great big Stilson Pipe Wrench. If you know someone who works in a chemical factory, power station, somewhere with a big maintenance department, it's the sort of thing they would have in the workshop.
As above I had the same problem last weekend. Made a mess of it trying to move it with the right tool. Big pipe wrench and a few taps with a rubber mallet sorted it. I was a bit worried that I was going to damage the frame but it all turned out well in the end.
Surely it's only the bearing that's goosed. Cup should be okay.
Until you get pipe wrench on it that is.
All looks horribly mangled
The cup had gone on mine. The tool sheered most of it off. First time I've ever had a problem with one. Usually just pull the bearing and replace but I needed to put a spacer in to get a bit more clearance with the chainstay.