Yes. You need a spacer or couple of washers under the cable at the mech to tweak the pull ratio. I’ve not tried it yet but my next mech will be a clutch one.

There was a thread a couple of days ago on it. With links to a thread where people with too much time machine up posh spacers. Depending on how worn your kit is it’ll prob work without a spacer.

6mm spacer needed I think

Use hope brake shims…other shims are available

What about a thumbshifter on friction 😉

I’m going to give this a go seen as I need a new mech.

Would this modification work with a SLX medium cage mech like the one below?

http://www.tweekscycles.com/components/mtb-rear-derailleurs/shimano-slx-rd-m675-slx-10-speed-shadow-design-rear-derailleur

Yup- just put one of those on the Soda, with my slightly tweaked version 2 spacer (it’s just fractionally thinner). Works a charm. Still not totally convinced it’s perfect mind but it’s so close, I won’t be spending any more time on it. Might go back to v1 and take a .1mm off it, if I can be bothered…

Great, thanks for the reply Northwind.

Ill let you know how I get on!

You can replace the 12T cog though. (I had a hard time with this, the 11T I had lying around was thicker than the deore one, so needed machined down, and it’s as hard as a hard thing so timeconsuming to work with. But ymmv!) Still heavy though.

I’d say, if you’re buying a cassette and a mech you probably might as well do the whole thing. But if you’re retaining other bits then the mix can make sense.(I’m running true 10-speed on one bike and 9.5-speed on 2)

I’ll try to remember tonight. I think it’s 6.8mm x 12mm x12mm (the width isn’t that important but 12mm fits rather nicely onto the mech). Hole is 5mm. Cable cut I just used the force so not sure how deep it is, about half as deep as a cable is thick.

Bum, I forgot- I’m out tomorrow but I might have a chance to check it on friday morning. I don’t really want to rely on that thickness being correct tbh

Cheers for the help form Northwind and this thread.

Had the first ride out on the mech with the adapter. Works so well.

The clutch just works. No more noise from the swingarm!

SLX works fine- got one in my soda now (with X9 shifter)

Aye, just exactly the same as my XT in the pics above (that also worked on XTR non-shadowplus, haven’t tried a Deore Zee or Saint but no reason to assume it won’t work)

Don’t worry about it rob. The mech just bolts to mech hanger as normal. I am running that mech with a 9 speed SRAM X9 shifter and it works perfectly. My solution is a few washers so it’s not as elegant as Northwind’s spacer but it works fine. A clutch mech is one of those things you wonder how you managed without. Get one 🙂

Aye, washers work fine too- was a wee bit more faff getting the cable fitted right but that’s really the only downside.

Entonox- I get a little noise in the biggest rings but I get that with my all-10speed Saint setup too, I think it might just be a new-Shimano or clutchy thing. Smaller cassette didn’t do it but kind of missed the point.

Just ordered the SLX dont think the XT is worth an extra £20. Sure i have some square nuts somewhere.

Just looking into this now for my slackline. So what’s the reason for going for a shimano mech? Is this because there is only 1 type of SRAM clutch mech and the shimano offerings are cheaper?

Pics above show it all really.
A small stack of washers or homemade spacer to give you +6mm cable length at the clamp and your SRAM 9spd shifter and Shimano 10 spd clutch mech will be best friends…

Has anyone looked at whether or not a similar spacer would get a 10 speed Shimano mech working with 9 speed shifters or are they too different altogether?

Nope, very different cable pull. This only works because they’re nearly the same.