Removing the cogs from the FW body doesn't usually give enough clearance to lace up the hub, unless it is a large flange hub. What you can do is disassemble the freewheel body and grind down the inner body so that you can run the pokes into the hub. Build up the wheel and then remove the remains of the freewheel with a normal remover... OR, if the notches/splines are damaged, just grind some flats onto the body, clamp the flats in a vise and unscrew the body that way. The disassemble-FW, grind-flats, clamp-in-vise approach is also good for removing (from built wheels)freewheels that have beed damaged too badly to remove with the normal tool.
>
> Another way to remove the freewheel form a bare hub
> is to build up a wheel.
> First, use a pair of chain whips to remove the cogs
> off the body of the
> freewheel. This will give you room on the drive side
> for the build. After it
> is built, remove the freewheel in the normal way.
>
> Glenn Fahey
> Herndon, VA
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