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Old 07-15-14, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
We put the freewheel removal tool in the bench vise , then unscrew the wheel from the freewheel
which is fixed in the vise by the removal tool .. if too tough for 1 to turn, its a 2 man job.
I work on a lot of tandems... sometimes it is a one man and one woman job and even after applying penetrants those freewheels can take an immense amount of torque to remove since so much torque gets put into tightening them up.
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