I’m trying to convert an older vintage bike to a single speed, and am on the step of trying to remove the cassette so I can remove all but one cog. I’ve purchased a Park Tool FR-2 to fit this SunTour cassette, and in the second photo you can see the setup. In the first photo you can see that the teeth look a bit stripped on the freewheel – is it worth trying further on this?
singlejeff on
That’s a freewheel. The easiest way to remove is to put the tool in a vice, set the wheel on the tool, grab the tire/rim, and turn left, like a bus driver would.
You can put the axle nut on after the tool to keep it from camming out
Working-Promotion728 on
Don’t use a chain whip to remove a freewheel. That’s making it harder or impossible.
bbbermooo on
Use the quick release skewer to clamp the freewheel tool nice and tight to the freewheel body.
Like the others said, do not use the chain whip, just unthread the tool.
FYI – your pedaling tightens that freewheel, it will be right.
WingChuin on
You’re fighting yourself with that chain whip. Your right arm is fighting against your left arm. You don’t need a whip for FWs.
Put fr-2 into slots, attach the QR skewer to secure the fr-2. Get a bigger wrench or attach something to your wrench to make a breaker bar. If you access to vise that’s even better. Tool in vice and turn the wheel.
QuinnGroff on
If it is truly stripped you can dissasemble the gear portion with a pin spanner and then just clamp the body of the freehub in a vise to spin it off
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I’m trying to convert an older vintage bike to a single speed, and am on the step of trying to remove the cassette so I can remove all but one cog. I’ve purchased a Park Tool FR-2 to fit this SunTour cassette, and in the second photo you can see the setup. In the first photo you can see that the teeth look a bit stripped on the freewheel – is it worth trying further on this?
That’s a freewheel. The easiest way to remove is to put the tool in a vice, set the wheel on the tool, grab the tire/rim, and turn left, like a bus driver would.
You can put the axle nut on after the tool to keep it from camming out
Don’t use a chain whip to remove a freewheel. That’s making it harder or impossible.
Use the quick release skewer to clamp the freewheel tool nice and tight to the freewheel body.
Like the others said, do not use the chain whip, just unthread the tool.
FYI – your pedaling tightens that freewheel, it will be right.
You’re fighting yourself with that chain whip. Your right arm is fighting against your left arm. You don’t need a whip for FWs.
Put fr-2 into slots, attach the QR skewer to secure the fr-2. Get a bigger wrench or attach something to your wrench to make a breaker bar. If you access to vise that’s even better. Tool in vice and turn the wheel.
If it is truly stripped you can dissasemble the gear portion with a pin spanner and then just clamp the body of the freehub in a vise to spin it off