Removing freewheel house on Shimano hub

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  • I want to use this hub for a fixed wheel but the freewheel house throws the chainline way out. Is it possible to remove the free wheel and replace with spacers?


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  • i doubt it
    dish the wheel

  • see if someone wants to swop it for a front one?

  • Thanks K but this is what I have got from VeloSolo.
    The spacers shown in the graphic are on the free wheel
    The fixed chainline is 52 mm. Mine is 41 mm.
    rear dropout is 132.5 mm.
    I was hoping to remove the freewheel house (item 18) in attached graphic,
    and add some spacers but VeloSolo say it is not possible and I need to
    increase the front chainline by approx 12mm by moving the chainring or using a different BB or chainset.


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  • Wrong graphic attached last time.


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  • google 'surly fixxer'.

  • google 'surly fixxer'.

    Don't think that will help the chainline.

    Also, it costs about the same as a hub and wheelbuild.

  • If you look for the Fixxer, the instructions tell you how to remove the freewheel. You just need a spanner....follow the instructions but just don't put the fixxer on

  • Missed this first time round. To remove the freewheel you need a big fuck off Allen key. About 12mm I think. It'll slot into '16' from your graphic.

  • Schweeet!! I'm taking an almost identical hub apart this evening and I couldn't see how to get the free wheel house off, due the four hundredweight of manky grease inside it. Thanks.

    I was planning to just clean the hub up, re-grease, reassemble, whack on a few spacers and run it as a single speed.

    But out of curiosity, if I wanted to rebuild the wheel as fixed, what would you replace the freewheel house with, or would you just jam the freewheel up somehow?

  • TIG it

  • Awww feck! I only haz MIG.

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Removing freewheel house on Shimano hub

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