Originally Posted by
SurferRosa
You can probably pull the axle out without using a freewheel tool, but it's really difficult to properly adjust the hub with the freewheel body in place. Buy the tool.
I don't agree. As long as you don't remove the cone on the drive side from the axle, then all your adjusting of the axle bearings can be done from the non-drive side. At least that's the way I did it on all the freewheel equipped bikes I use to have. Are there some FW's that don't allow that?