Timeline for Freehub not very free after tightening cassette lockring
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| Oct 17, 2022 at 19:45 | comment | added | Chris H | @MaplePanda it looked OK, and rode fine today. Probably good that I went by feel rather than slavishly going for 40Nm. | |
| Oct 17, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | MaplePanda | @ChrisH Inspect the freehub body seal below the lockring threads. There's a chance it got damaged/pushed in further due to the too-long lockring. | |
| Oct 16, 2022 at 15:59 | comment | added | Chris H | Well, it turned out to be the lockring. The one that came with the new cassette had about 1mm more thread than the old Shimano, and seems to have pressed on the freehub. Presumably that pressure ended up in the freehub bearings. | |
| Oct 16, 2022 at 15:55 | vote | accept | Chris H | ||
| Oct 15, 2022 at 19:04 | comment | added | Chris H | Some good ideas there, though it can't be the first because there is no spoke protector. I can easily swap to the old lockring. Deeper could interfere I guess. While I'm at it I'll examine the big cog for any way it could touch something it shouldn't (previous was 11-34 when I had a child seat and steep hills, new is back to 11-32), but they looked superficially the same in the middle. | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 18:05 | history | answered | Nathan Knutson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |