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Old 07-01-21 | 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by davester
Chains are cheap. I would replace the chain and only worry about replacing the freewheel if it starts skipping with the new chain.
This is what I would do. Older freewheels just didn’t wear out like lightweight modern cassettes. If you did identify skipping in a particular SunTour freewheel cog, you could replace the worn cog instead of the entire freewheel. Accushift freewheel spacing was asymmetric (as stated by 70sSanO ).

Have you tried a new chain to see how it runs? 0.75 elongation is not bad.
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