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My rear hub is need of some loving, it's given up engaging...totally. I think this is my own fault tbh, I believe I put a little too much grease in causing the pawls/springs to get sticky. I think this has caused them to wear along with the freehub ratchet possibly wearing. It also needs new bearings, all 5 sets of em!
I've worked out that new freehub body, pawls/springs comes to about 42 quid and a new full bearing kit is about 33 (I haven't looked too deeply into a bearing supplier but think I could get that down to around 25?).
A new hub of the same type is about 70 quid but I'd have to pay for it to be swapped with the current hub on the wheel. If I replace all the bearings then I think I that the new ones will be of better quality. So do I buy the brand new hub for possibly cheaper or do I repair the current one and end up with better bearings? Or, do I buy a new hub for about the same price but of a different brand?
Spray a bit of WD40 on the freehub
That should give you a few more years..
I give up on hubs when it's cheaper to buy them new than repair or replace parts.
You can get a Deore hub for under a tenner if you shop around, yet the same freehub body, axle and cones will cost two or three times that.
Changing one hub for another of the same is easy enough, you can use the same spokes and possibly the same nipples if they're good enough.