Originally Posted by
zukahn1
Just stop beating on it soak the thing in modern 40 weight oil for a couple hours you will get the same results clean up and put back on. To take apart a older Suntour it takes several specific tools some skill and usually a torch to do so. The good thing is this is not needed better Suntours almost never fail even after 30 years. Just soak it in oil drain and it might go another 20.
+1 once you have it off, there's no reason to "service" it. A long soaking bath in solvent, followed by draining and running some oil in and it'll go forever. I've ridden freewheels or 45 years in all kinds of weather, never ever bothered servicing them, and I've never had a freewheel body fail before the sprockets wore out.