Review on 🔧 Essential Park Tool Bicycle Bottom Bracket Pin Spanner: A Must-Have Bicycle Tool! by Gerald Hill

As you can probably tell from my photos, I service a Shimano single speed clutch, especially the MX30. This tool is essential to remove the freewheel cover. There are other uses for this tool, e.g. B. for adjusting old Shimano cranks, Campy cranks and some tapers. Still, it's a very handy tool to take with you, and for the price, it pays for itself quickly. All in all this is a very well made tool and worth having!* I understand that some of you may be coming to this review because you have decided to disassemble Shimano single speed freehubs. A lot of people say they're useless, but that's a conscious lie. But why maintain a Shimano Freewheel single speed clutch? The simple answer is, while very well made, they are not sealed like White Industries' Freewheels and over time they sound a bit crisp and refuse to be quiet. So if you want a near-silent single speed freehub, you'll either have to spend $80-$110 on a White Industries freehub or buy a Shimano freehub. Shimano quality, you don't buy anything else - and you end up taking it apart and oiling it. Here's how: * If you still have questions after reading my guide, please follow this link: https://dirtragmag.com/how-to-repair-your-singlespeed-freewheel/1. You will need the above tool, a degreaser such as WD40 or regular gasoline, and to lubricate, just use white lithium grease. You can use multiple lubes, but white lithium grease holds up well to heat as it's thin enough not to get dirty but thick enough to clog the ratchet and coat any internal parts. You can get a decent white lithium grease for around $4-5.2. You can proceed in three ways. Either service the freewheel before installing it, service it while it is installed, or remove it and service it. It's up to you personally, but I always service my Shimano freewheels immediately and then once every 3 months because the bike I use them on is a rain/snow bike so see bad weather on a regular basis. If you are servicing the ratchet before installation, with this tool simply remove the cover from the ratchet by turning it clockwise and then simply apply a good coating of grease to it. Then just put the cover back on. That's all. A small amount of grease will come out of the freehub when you put the cover on, but it's no big deal. Just wipe the access and then twist the freewheel a few times to get the grease in. If you wish to service the clutch after installation, simply remove the rear wheel and remove the cover as before. Now you can apply a degreaser to the insides if you have a light build up of dirt or if they look clean enough just do as directed in the first situation and then put the cap back on. If you want to remove the clutch after installation and want to completely overhaul it, you will also need a one-speed freewheel removal tool, but it is very inexpensive. In this situation, remove the freewheel with this tool, and then carefully remove the cover as in other situations. From there take a decent sized plastic bowl half filled with your choice of gas or degreaser, carefully remove all internal bearings and place in bowl, remove ratchet system and place and lid and body into the bowl. Let everything stand for an hour, then peel. From there, reinstall the first set of bearings (if you do this there will be bearings below the pawls and above), after applying a small coat of grease to the housing, then replace the pawls, then another coat of grease and finally the rest of the camps. Then replace the cover, tighten counterclockwise and finally reinstall the freewheel on the wheel by turning it clockwise by hand (turning the chain and cranks a few times will fully tighten it. Hooray!