how rubbish are shimano hubs? – Page 2 – Bike Forum

lovewookie · 2014-04-13T13:50:19Z

Bike service day today. Decided to be good and strip my hubs. They're only 6 months old so figured a bit of preventative maintenance would be a good thing, even as they've not had a huge amount of use, maybe 6 hours a week at most. Front was Ok, grease looked a little emulsified, but surfaces good. The rear was a different tale. Full of crap. Drive side cleaned up Ok. Non drive side bearings, cone and hub bearing surface very dull. There's pitting starting on the surfaces already. Not impressed at all, especially at xt level. Moved away from cartridges to give shimano a go, maybe I should have gone for XTR instead. When did they become so rubbish?

Retrodirect

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A few people have said it before on this thread but I'm going to repeat.

The bearings in the hubs are ALWAYS adjusted too tight from factory. Adjust 'em properly and put a ton of grease in and cup & cone should last you as long as they ever did in the past.

... still not going to defend them too hard though, cartridge is better, preventative maintenance sucks.

Posted : 15/04/2014 1:42 pm

lovewookie

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Thanks all for your comments.

I may just buy a donor hub then, at least I'll have a spare freehub body, cones and axle that way too.

ta

Posted : 15/04/2014 2:19 pm

trail_rat

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"Front hub's £26 vs £10.80 for Hope... But £36 for a rear vs the price of 5 bearings looks much better "

or free if you strip it and clean it before it spackered .

Posted : 15/04/2014 2:49 pm

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