Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Yes, no and maybe.
It's a question of the freewheel position with respect to the face of the axle. As the locknut width increased, and the freewheel stayed inboard to maintain line, that step got bigger.
Odds are that the Park tool you're using was designed around BMX dropout width, and so didn't allow for the longer axles. At some point Park will likely deepen the remover and solve your problem (if they haven't done so already).
In the meantime, either live with it using a nut to hold the remover tight, or get used to taking the locknut off before removing the freewheel.
^This is exactly the scenario.
I had a similar problem when I made the terrible mistake of putting an ACS freewheel that uses their non-4-prong tool on my Phil Wood hub. It was impossible to the get their tool to engage with the freewheel body (at all) because the large diameter of the PW axle endcaps interfered with the tool. Removing an endcap from PW hubs isn't difficult, but only one will break free at a time (you can't control which one will go) and getting the second one off without completely disassembling the entire hub is near impossible. That was a lesson learned.