Mountain Bike Rear Wheel Cassette Removal
Remove the old chain utilizing a chain tool.
Mountain bike rear wheel cassette removal. After you have removed the rear wheel from your bike remove the quick release skewer from the wheel. The skewer acts as a holding device for freewheel removal tool. In order to remove the cassette you ll need a freewheel or a cassette lockring removal tool make sure you get one specific to the group you have on your bike because some tools are handle like and others are cyclindrical. Remove rear wheel and quick release.
Install quick release skewer and install skewer nut on outside of remover. Snug skewer nut against remover. Inspect cassette and select correct type of remover. A typical cassette can have anything between five and 13 sprockets although most modern bicycle drivetrains use either 9 10 or 11.
To determine if a sprocket is a freewheel or cassette system remove the rear wheel from the bike. Spin the sprockets backwards. Adjustible wrench for use with park cassette lockring tool torque wrench ft lb newton meters chain tool. If the fittings spin with the cogs it is a cassette system with.
Remove the rear wheel from the bike. To change a rear cassette on your bike wheel start by removing the rear wheel from the bike. A bicycle cassette is the cluster of sprockets located on the rear hub of your bike slotting onto a freehub body and held firmly in place with a threaded cassette lockring. Find the tool fitting on the sprocket set.
Shift into the smallest sprocket. First either place the bike on a stand or upside down. Engage remover into splines notches. The ratcheting mechanism comes off with the cogs when the freewheel unthreads for removal.
Mount bike in repair stand and remove rear wheel from bike. Shift the rear derailleur to the highest gear smallest cog. If a standard cassette lockring remover doesn t fit your cassette ask a bike tech for one that will. Then insert the cassette lockring remover into your cassette and turn it until it seats.
Next remove the skewer which is the rod running through the center of the wheel and insert a lockring removal tool into the center of the cassette. Due to the explanation above regarding the specific splines of each make you will have to obtain a tool for your particular cassette a wrench if you have a handle.