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Thanks ehren - it certainly seems like the picture on the left. I had heard that on the Suntour sprocket cluster, the smallest cog acts as a lock ring which can be whipped off so as to remove the rest of the cluster - having cleaned the whole lot up though it really doesn't look like that is the case here. I'm still stumped!
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hang on, it's a bloody freewheel isn't it.... damn damn damn. new wheel, new hub. ah well
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how do, my god a response already! hm, the wheel looks in decent enough fettle to me, the problem is more that the cassette tool just doesn't do it! managed to undo both nuts either side on the actual axle (spindle? whatever it's called) running through the hub, but all that did was, well, just loosen the spindle. did give me a nice look at the bearings within it for what it was worth. I have seen that there particular Suntour specific cassette removal tools with eother 2 or 4 prongs, (Park do em, and a few others) but again can't see where that goes either. Contemplating 2 chain tools to whip off the smallest cog on the cassette???
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Evening all, possible redirect in progress here as the new face about town, but where else can I go!!
Needing advice on somewhat of a problematic issue - got hold of a lovely old '91 kona cindercone (http://www.konaretro.com/articles/catalogues/1991/91Inner2.jpg) and with eager intentions of a single speed transplant operation then got my tool kit (http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=T0045). Lovely. Or not so lovely as it turned out to my utter dismay. The problem? A full Suntour XC drivetrain stubbornly resisting my futile efforts to get the ruddy 7 speed cassette of the hub, and what's more my supposed do-it-all crank tool, quite frankly, doesn't.
How can I get the cassette off! And secondly, if I even can, will the Suntour hub even accomodate a nice shiny new SS cog (Surly / Wheels Mnf / Gusset....) ?? Any ideas welcomed, tho within reason....
right, may be getting somewhere close to single speed liberation here.
there certainly seems to be no corresponding notches on the suntour that relate to the advice on the park tool site - which suggests that the unit may well be held on by the smallest cog.. bit loathe to attack it as i don't want to damage it in a double chain whip frenzy tho my thinking now is that if this the case it seems more likely to be a casette, which in turn means i may ave a usable freehub after all on which to screw on an SS cog. here's hoping, tho i might ask an LBS to do the actual deed....