The standard alu freehub bodies are notorious for wear, so I opted for the heavier steel bodied freehub in the hope of minimising the chewed up splines.
Sadly the steel bodied variety seems to suffer from the same wear issues. The cassette was a PG970 … so not the cheapest of cassette .. and its one cassette old .. 7-8mths old.
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When i first saw this I thought something was wrong, however on reflection as there is no actual movement between the free-hub
splines and the cassette splines then i cannot see the ‘indents’ on the free-hub spline having any detrimental effect as long as the cassette assembly is still easy to remove.
Ive got a 8-9 year old steel hope xc freehub that has no sign of wear from interface with the cassette and has been used with both cheap cassettes and ss.
I dont see how overtightening it would make any difference. Where as if it was loose it may move about and chew a little. The marks on mine arent showing signs of it being too loose and moving about.
This is the 1st cassette. Fitted earlier this year. And to be honest – I have done most riding on the road bike this year, so it hasnt had alot of use.
Not too confident on its longevity..
Yes – I had heard stay away from deore level type. Always assumed the 970 was on par with xt .. then again, I also assumed the steel body would be bullet proof.
It’s not the price of the cassette it’s if it has an alloy carrier to surport the cogs that matters
You can see from the marks all the way down the body that yours is an all metal one
Type of cassette makes a difference, I have had a SRAM cassette saw through alloy splines in no time, due to the smaller cogs not being attached to the rest, so the spacers and cogs were separate, so the load was concentrated on 1mm.
Look for cassettes where they are not in separate bits, or the cogs have a wide base, rather than loose skinny cogs and separate spacers.
Same issue here, but in an earlier phase.
Today I have dissasembled my 9 speed sram pg 990 cassete to do some maintenance and cleaning and I noticed hardly visible damage on my hope pro 2 evo steel freehub body on the place where the alone cogs are. The sram pg 990 cassete has 5 cogs on big block ( no damage there ) and 4 standalone cogs. The damage is on the place of the standalone cogs. I am using the steel freehub body for quite soon, so I expect after more riding the damage will increase.
Any idea how I can stop the destructive process ? Or no chance… 🙁
When you pedal after freewheeling do you feed it in or do you make the freewheel clang? A mate of mine tends to do the latter and his freehub gets chewed up.
How accurately are you tightening the cassette nut? I have noticed that many cassettes I have replaced for people have not been tight enough and allow the cogs to move individually. 40NM is a surprisingly high torque.
When I pedal in most cases I feed in, but sometimes it happenes to clang by accident.
Actually I do not know my torque of tightening. I do not have tool to measure it. Maybe I should buy one. But when tightening, I think about that some day I should remove the casette. 🙂 I have bad memories with overtightened cassette, which was almost unremoveable.
For sure the casette is not lose.
Is the tightening so important for a steel free hub body to remain undamaged ?
I’ve got a steel shimano freehub that’s done about 20 years of service, and it doesn’t have so much as a bruise on it… Same with my old cheapo Formula hubs. Wonder why Hope have a problem with this? Wouldn’t be very pleased myself, considering the entire reason you get the heavy steel one is to avoid it.
Their alu ones are worse for it than my DT alu freehubs, always assumed it was just a softer alloy they use but maybe there’s something in common with the design of the 2 hopes? Can’t think what, mind
40nm on the cassette lock ring and a good smear of Shimano Anti-Seize on the freehub body before fitting
depending on the cassette design, some will notch even the steel body, some won’t
this was my alloy body on my Pro III (road bike) after 6 months with a 105 cassette
I’ve been selling, maintaining and using Hope hubs for many years, and was familiar with having difficulty removing non-spider and even spider style cassettes on mountain bikes, and using a steel file to clean up any notching before fitting a new cassette, but this level of damage on my Pro III was nothing I had seen before.
I had to remove the cogs using a flat blade screwdriver and hammer to rotate each cog the 2-3mm it had bitten into the alloy body.
I am not a big guy with big legs and only riding in S-East England, so was surprised it was so badly notched.
after talking to Hope Tech, and sending the damaged part back, they replaced it FOC which is typical of Hope with their excellent backup, one reason I will always buy Hope for hubs 🙂
Has anybody tried it ? Will it be better than a steel free hub body ( ignoring the weight ) ?
I will never do this amount of work for 70 grams if the steel freehub body does the job. 🙂
after talking to Hope Tech, and sending the damaged part back, they replaced it FOC which is typical of Hope with their excellent backup, one reason I will always buy Hope for hubs
It’s one reason I’ll buy products that work properly. Always find the fawning over Hope a bit odd, why don’t they fix products, rather than acknowledge they’re shit by replacing them free?!
OP, it won’t get any worse, don’t file it down just leave it, as the high metal helps to prevent it digging in any more. I do agree with njee above, people slaughter SRAM for the reverb issues, but good old Hope are from t’yorkshire tha knows, so are exempt from such stuff. FWIW, fisher are pretty good on warranty SRAM stuff too.