Worked for me on my Tri-Diamond free wheel with these same inner splines. I got a 9/16ths x 1 inch bolt for 2.30$, ground the corners, then put flats on it. My 12inch adjustable wouldnt do it until I slipped a pipe over it like you said. I did strip it once and had to make the flats have more surface area.Then it came off. Repacked bearings & set the tension. Thanks Broski.
I used the bolt option after seeing your video. It fit right in without grinding anything. It had a shank over the threads, so I got a visegrip plier, tightened it, and it worked.
Thanks ! everybody else says just buy the tool. But unless its like a park tool then who knows the quality. A pack of these lug nuts will work forever same as the bolt. I don't even own the proper tool, don't need it.
Thanks ! I try to stay away from bike shops. But these days it seems everybody buys a new bike if there is any problem. So I get the old bike and get free parts. Right now during covid though, canadian tire is price gouging on even cheap bikes asking for $500 for a bike worth $200 before fake covid. So perhaps people will go to the bike shop for repairs or fix old bike themselves.
I just bought a freewheel tool from the bike shop in Oklahoma. It was only like $10 I think... But that's a good idea! If I didn't have one, I would totally try this
Damned good idea! I didn't think of that. 12 splines so a hexagon bolt would fit with a little work with the grinder. I have an odd-ball freewheel that I can't buy the tool for (sand in freewheel bearings). Thanks! One thing that might help someone who is trying to grind down parallel surfaces on a bolt so you can get a wrench on it: just double nut the bolt! That's how mechanics remove studs from an engine block. You just put two nuts on the bolt and tighten them into each other. Then you can get a wrench on one nut or the other depending on whether you are tightening or loosening it (or put it in a vice) without all the grinding.
i like it. Wondering if anyone has a technique for removing a cassette which rotates with the sprocket. ie a non freewheel mechanism. The tools which are sold on amazon have a different diameter.
Much appreciated. I need to adjust my cones, but because the pinion is in the way, and I don't have a specific tool to remove the cone, nor can I seem to find it anywhere (I think it's a shimano cone) this option is the next best solution. I'll remove the pinion, and will have access to the cone and use a wrench to adjust it. Not elegant, but Mcgyver would approve.
Sockets....it's a lugnut . Great ideas but would be helpful to know what your actually using. But the point being that you're using $50 worth of lug nuts to take the place of a $20 tool still is kind of hard to swallow.
Thank you for making this video youngster. You certainly gave us many avenues to solve this problem without having to purchase a proprietary tool. You are also good at demonstrating and explaining things. You spoke slowly and clearly in a calm even voice. You'd be a good teacher!
at 9:00 the spark plug socket............use the other end...it will fit! Then use a pipe wrench to loosen...use a cheater if necessary.....worked like magic....
This is the video i was looking for. I bought a 3 pack of freewheel remover tools from amazon and turns out theyre made of chineseium and are like a millimeter too small so they get tight right on the very end of the splines then skip and strip if you try to turn it. Im replacing all the freewheels anyways but im getting tired of guessing if a tool is gonna fit.
Depending on the manufacturer of the freewheel u may have to just lightly feather your lug nut faces. Not really removing much material just the zinc coating / resurface without putting pressure on the grinding disc.
That would work ! but i rather not break my vice lol. And \or wear and tear to the vice jaws. I think i can get more leverage with a large pipe anyways though.
If its f150 factory lugnuts then it will not work. The after market lug nuts im showing in the video are much different. The factory lugnuts acorn shape and because they have a cheap sleeve over the lugnut they wont work for this.
Many concepts are NOT best conveyed with Video. This is one of them. This good idea could have been explained in about 30 secs with a couple of photographs. A 13min video was not necessary.
@@BIKEMAN21 i asked Batman he said "I am from Gotham city" so i kicked him in the nuts and stole his wallet and then used his credit card to buy myself some gloves and then i used my hands. But the weren't bare so yeah thanks for the tip bro!
Originally had lugnuts / sockets, those are the ones slightly grinded. One day I noticed the longer lug nuts in the store so i bought a 4 pack. Either will work but these new longer lug nuts were much better. You cant just buy specialty bike tools at your local big box store. They last thing they want you to do is fix your bike, or it could be its just not a hot seller for retail.
LOL the actual tool is less than $15, less than the lug nuts, AND fits over the axle. Save yourself the trouble of removing the axle and bearings and get the right tool. Fit the proper tool in a vice and "drive the bus", and voila! no fussing with the cone bearings. This video assumes you have all these other tools laying around to fabricate something that fits. Go for this method if you have more time than dollars and sense.
Good points, but there is no fabricating involved, if you buy the lugnuts im showing it will work. Also if you buy the tool you will not require a vice just a wrench and a pipe. Using vice could actually break the vice or what ever the vice to mounted to. Initially i had the grade 3 bolts and random lug nuts already laying around that basically fit perfect. in the video im just showing a better method.
There's one catch to that, first im highly skeptical of the quality of a $8 tool, also not everybody shops online. but anybody can walk into a canadian tire and buy the lugnuts the same day. Thanks for commenting. buying the tool is an option but i never found a need for it.
First things first I love birds I love animals but you should have did this video away from the birds they are annoying when watching this video second those nuts that you got from the Auto or hardware store store probably cost the same or more than a tool that is specifically designed to take the freewheel off the tool that will take the freewheel off is only 10 bucks on Amazon and most of the bicycle stores online or wherever there's a bicycle store near you three you talk too much you do too much explaining.
