This is probably a dumb question. I am playing with various single, double, and triple cog combinations (bikes are Legos) and wondered if it is reasonably possible to crack open a 5-speed Suntour freewheel, remove three cogs and respace the remainder for chainline. Sort of a homemade White Industries DOS freewheel, but for a standard freewheel hub.
Thanks
If i understand you: yes you should be able to whip off the cogs (no reason to open up the mechanism) and remove cogs to replace some with spacers, but the trick will be finding just the right thickness of spacer stack. Plus you have to retain the small cog(s) that is/are threaded and hold all the stack onto the body which makes the chainline deal questionable. Not big thing except you'll always have that smallest cog there, whether you use it or not in the reduced gears drivetrain.