Makeshift freewheel removal
 

(MECHANICS, SHEILD YOUR EYES)


I am building a single speed bike for my teenage daughter. I pulled the freewheel cassette off the wheel I am using by removing the lockring with a punch and a hammer, then twisted it off using a pipe wrench.


The single speed freewheel was a little trickier because, unlike the freewheel cassette, I need to reuse it. This is me removing the single speed freewheel using a vise and a pair of needle nose locking pliers (vice grips)... The wheel pictured is metric (700c) and won't work for my 26" build, hence the need to swap the two.

there are freewheels and freehubs puller tools out there than can do the job the right way and they don't cost that much .

I know, I know....
... no points for ingenuity? Also not sure what's "wrong" with my method? I truly did not care about destroying the multi speed freehub which I removed. It was bottom of the barrel, dept store Huffy stock. The freewheel pictured for my single speed project is pretty nice, Japanese made and I in no way harmed it using the method described.

Using the proper tool reduces the risk of damaging the remover slots on the freewheel. Once that happens, destructive removal is often your only option.

The proper tool isn't that expensive. Why risk the expense and bother of destructive removal of your "nice" freewheel?

+100

Yes, I'll give cudos for this sort of ingenuity. I refer to this sort of ingenuity with a term I learned in the Navy..."Gun Decking." You do whatever you have to go to get your equipment working in the heat of battle. Good job.

Dan

Thanks! I am learning but problem solving is a universal skill