Originally Posted by
thook
got it! don't have a vice set up. perhaps a pipe wrench cheater bar will do the trick?
also, i only have a two prong suntour fw tool. the 7spd fw i have has four prongs. how can i install it without a four prong tool?
In all honesty, I’d stick with the Atom over the Suntour. Suntour 2 prong freewheels are a pain to deal with and going to 4 prongs didn’t improve anything. The freewheel tool doesn’t engage well and tends to cam out and/or tear the prongs off the tool. There was something about the Suntour that made them harder to remove (tighter tolerance on the threads?) and they had an inferior tool to do so. The 4 prong system often breaks on the freewheel body. Even today, when one comes into my co-op, I dread having to remove them.
Shimano, Sunrace, Atom, etc all use a much better system for removal and are easier to remove in the first place.