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Anyone know how interchangable Shimano freehubs are ? Sheldon reckoned [url= http://www.sheldonbrown.com/k7.html ]'...Virtually all Shimano freehub bodies are interchangeable...'[/url] but Shimano [url= http://bike.shimano.com/publish/content/global_cycle/en/us/index/tech_support/tech_tips.download.-Par50rparsys-0033-downloadFile.html/06%29%20Freehub%20Interchangeability.pdf ]say different :?[/url]
I think Sheldon is talking about cassette/freehub interchangeability there, whereas Shimano are talking about hub/freehub body interchangeability.
Sheldon says you can stick pretty much any cassette on any Shimano freehub body, with a few weird exceptions. That Shimano table seems to tell you which freehub bodies fit which hubs, should you need a replacement (I don't know what all the columns mean though, so I could be wrong).
I was looking at that very SB article earlier today to figure out if you could stick a 2010 SRAM 9 speed cassette on a 1996 Deore LX freehub - turns out you can, yay.
Cheers mint.