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Just doing a bit of maintenance on my bike and have found my rear hub to be a bit sticky and sluggish. Its pretty new, the barings feel smooth as silk but it just seems to have some resistance when spinning.
Any ideas what I can do to fix this?
Cheers all!!
stu
disk or freehub problem
sorry
strip down re-grease and see how it feels
IIRC a thrust washer can be put back in the wrong place, that causes this symptom, check the exploded diagram off the Hope web site to confirm
cheers,
defo not a disk problem,
I'll have a check of the build, see if it's all in the right order, the main problem I have is Hope seem to require special tools to put it back together. Any ways round this?
I had this a few weeks ago after pulling the freehub off by accident. The pedals would carry on spinning after I'd span them, whereas the normally stop and the wheel carries on it's own. If you tried to rotate them backwards, the freewheel wouldn't rotate freely and the chain lifted off the cassette.
I couldn't work out what I'd done wrong but the LBS sorted it in minutes - as above it was a seal that I'd not put back properly. Not major. If you can't sort it your LBS should be able to very quickly....
Sounds like either
1 The seal between the freehub carrier and hub has come adrift
2 you have a worn free hub bearing thats partially seizing up.
I use a peice of 8mm threaded bar and an engineers washer or deep socket thats the same diameter as the bearing outer to press them in.
To remove I use a peice of soft alloy bar to tap the old ones out.
ah, wise words.
Cheers!!
Both my pro II rear hubs suffered outer freehub bearing failures after a very short period of time.
Fitted skf bearing and been fine since.