Tips to remove stubborn free wheel

ted1

As per pedal thread, I have a stubborn part that won't budge, this times it's a free wheel.
So off with the quick release, on goes the chain whip,in goes the free wheel remover, on goes the wrench and then I add alotof force , then ......nothing but profanities aimed at an inanimate object .

I've tried a bit of lube, pouring a kettle over it , a pray ☺ so any moire suggestions?? A much longer wrench? How much force should be used?

tomasrojo

I assume from the mention of a chain whip that it's a freehub, rather than an old-fashioned screw-on freewheel?

The cassette should slide off a freehub easily enough, once you remove the lockring. You can then remove the freehub with an allen key.

If it's an old-fashioned freewheel, that can be very tight. I used to use a long ring spanner around the removal tool, hold the wheel with both hands, pushed tight against my right foot, and push the spanner anti-clockwise with my left leg, for extra strength. (I never needed a chain whip for a freewheel.)

Type 17

If it's a freewheel, put the remover tool in a decent-quality bench-vice, with the quick-release skewer almost tight, to hold the removal tool in place, and grab the rim at each side and swing your whole body to the right.

If it's a cassette, assemble things the same way (vice/remover tool), but use a chain whip on the largest sprocket, and grab the whip and pull it to the right.

ted1

Yep my terminology is Arse ways, it's the lock ring that I wa trying to remove, the water, lube and glasses of wine while waiting fir them to take affect worked .
There was a spacer between the old cassette and free Hub which I left in, that had groves in it and mentioned something about 9s/10s only. So I just replaced the cassette but the new one had what I guess is spacer without markings high I didn't bother using. Should it be left over ? I replaced a CS-4600 with a cs-6700 both 10 speed 12t-30t