Park Tool BBT-22 Shimano Sealed Cartridge Bottom Bracket Tool

Manufacturer: Park Tool
Customer Rating:
List Price: $20.99
Sale Price: $17.48
Availibility: Usually ships in 24 hours
Free Shipping Available
Buy Now

Product Description

The BBT-22 is a shop quality tool for installing and removing Shimano® and ISIS Drive® splined 20-tooth bottom bracket cups. Made from investment cast steel, the BBT-22 utilizes a flat tooth profile to ensure maximum engagement with the bottom bracket cup. Can be used with a 3/8” drive torque wrench, 3/8” ratchet driver, 32mm wrench, FRW-1 Freewheel Remover Wrench, or 1” wrench.

Product Details

The BBT-22 is a shop quality tool for installing and removing Shimano® and ISIS Drive® splined 20-tooth bottom bracket cups.
Made from investment cast steel, the BBT-22 utilizes a flat tooth profile to ensure maximum engagement with the bottom bracket cup.
Can be used with a 3/8? drive torque wrench, 3/8? ratchet driver, 32mm wrench, FRW-1 Freewheel Remover Wrench, or 1? wrench
The BBT-22 is an updated version of the current BBT-2.

Video Reviews

No video reviews found for this product.

Customer Reviews

When you need it...

Review Date: June 15, 2009

Reviewer: Two Wheels,

Park Tool is widely regarded as the best bicycle-specific tool maker. This bottom bracket tool, essentially the socket end of a 1/2" drive socket wrench, makes it easy to see why. It's splined to fit Shimano sealed cartridge bottom brackets, just like a very similar socket I have from another manufacturer. The crucial differences are two: fit and contour. The tool snaps very precisely on to the bottom bracket, making easier work of a removal job that can be difficult due to overtightening or seized threads. Just as importantly, the top of the socket is contoured so that if the drive handle is providing insufficient leverage to do the job, one can fit a box end or open end wrench over the hex-shaped top of the socket. This makes possible the "desperation method," in which the socket must actually be bolted to the spindle of the bottom bracket and then turned a little at a time (often with much swearing, cheater pipes, etc). In the "seriously desperate" version of the desperation method, the tool can be bolted to the bottom bracket spindle and then clamped into a vice, with the entire frame being turned as a lever to move the seized threads. The shape of this tool makes that clamping possible.

If you have to do this, make sure to treat yourself to a beer or similar reward afterward. But with this tool, you can! If you're blessed not to need that method, this tool will work exactly as it should anyway, and for years to come.

Perfect

Review Date: October 19, 2008

Reviewer: David Migl,

No complaints; worked perfectly for tightening my bottom bracket on a Diamondback Wildwood (Shimano sealed cartridge bottom bracket).

Solid

Review Date: October 4, 2009

Reviewer: A. Martinez, Miami, Fl USA

Made in America. Solid construction. A little expensive, but it won't be much cheaper to get it done at a cycle shop.

Perfect fit

Review Date: March 9, 2010

Reviewer: MJ, USA

I needed this to uninstall an old crankset so I could put a new one in and it worked great. Good contact and gave good leverage to crack the old one out. Nice tool to have in the box just in case, even if I never have to use it again.

Tool

Review Date: December 16, 2009

Reviewer: Paul Murphy, Brooklyn, NY United States

If you are changing your bottom bracket, you might consider buying this, but you also might consider saving your money and going to a bike shop. How often are you really going to need this tool? And do you have a wrench that will tell you the torque pressure so you know you have tightened it enough but not too much? I'm ambivalent about this item. I like to have the tools and be able to do my own repairs, but I don't know when I'll be using this one again. Also, I managed to break off one of the teeth the one time I used it. So be careful.