halanvt said:
I ride an old 10 speed, now a 12 speed with the change to a Suntour (Maeda Industries) Perfect 6-speed freewheel. Here is my problem:
The bearings on this freewheel are worn and there is some side-to-side wobble. It has the ratios I want 14 to 34 teeth, so I want to mate the gears to another Suntour Perfect freewheel with good bearings.
Does anyone out there have experience taking these apart?
FWIW. The conventional wisdom is that you should NOT try to service a Freewheel ...
In other words, it would probably be 40x easier (i.e., if it takes you 1 hour to go to your bike shop & return home, allow at least 40 hours to try to service the Freewheel because you will probably spend a lot of time tryng to disassemble & reassemble it!) & less expensive ($20 for the Freewheel vs. a lot more for the tools) for you to get a new Freewheel from eBay OR even (!?!) your local bike shop.
FYI. SR bought out SunTour & subsequently renamed the combined product line SunRace ... but, the Freewheel removal tool is different for the SunRace Freewheels than for the SunTour Freewheels.
The current SunRace Freewheels are ramped & index compatible with 8-speed Shimano & Campagnolo shifters (if that ever becomes an issue). Use an 8-speed Shimano chain which is basically a copy of the
Sedis Narrow chain.
The 7-speed SunRace Freewheel will fit a 126mm spaced rear wheel.
Presumably, you need a 130mm spaced wheel for the 8-speed SunRace Freewheel.
If, for some reason, you can't get another 14-34 Freewheel exactly like the one you have, you can (of course)
with some effort & special tools remove the lockring + cogs & transplant the cogs to ANOTHER "SunTour Perfect" Freewheel body. I'm pretty sure the "SunTour Winner" body is slightly different, BTW, but maybe the difference was internal.