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But wait! Before installing the input shaft, you need to decide whether or not you want to use the freewheel mechanism. The reason you need to make this decision now is that if you want to use the freewheel, you have to install its actuating fork before you put the input shaft back into the housing. This picture shows how the pieces go together to make the freewheel work. The actuating fork (brass piece at top) slides the toothed sleeve back and forth on the shaft, to lock or unlock the input shaft and the freewheel hub (not shown.)