Anyone know where I can source a freehub axle….?

As title really – I’m after one of these (circled in blue). It doesn’t seem to have a part number.

I guess from that labelling its only sold as a kit eg https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/hub-spares/shimano-whmt501clr12b29-rear-complete-hub-axle-y0kd98010/

You might be better off buying a whole hub and having a spare freehub and shell

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/hub-spares/shimano-whmt501clr12b29-rear-complete-hub-axle-y0kd98010/

But on seeing the price you will probably just want to buy a new hub….

Edit: 36seconds too slow.

Thanks, yes I saw those and didn’t want to buy just what’s in the picture for £60! The part number they use is the same as for the whole hub though but they are only showing the axle and bearings in the pic so I wasn’t sure. I could ring them on Monday I suppose but even then £60 is a bit steep. Also SJS take ages to ship stuff. I was hoping somewhere might do just the axle.

I would buy the whole hub if I could find one at a decent price as I would get a spare freehub then too as you say. Otherwise I would probably be better off buying a whole new wheel but I’m not really inclined to do that just for the sake of 1 part!

If you can find the hub at a reasonable price then replace the inners but no need to rebuild the wheel.

https://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/shimano-fh-mt510-b-center-lock-rear-hub-12x148mm-847111

Just double check it has the right parts first

Cheers all. I’ll get one of those 👆. Wrong number of spoke holes but if all the innards match then that’ll do. 👍

What on earth have you done to the existing one?!

Well, it’s quite a long and not very interesting story – but since you ask…

I needed new bearings in the freehub as the cassette was wobbling a bit. I took the wheel to my LBS and they said they would replace the bearings. As i was carrying the wheel out of the shop the cassette and freehub fell off the wheel. This was because the outer dustcap on the drive side was not pressed fully home. When I tried to press it home it would not go all the way. LBS guy took the wheel away and 20 mins later gave it back saying he fixed it and muttering about a dust seal. Sure enough the cap was now clicking on….

So FFWD a day later when I go to install the wheel on the bike I notice that the wheel is binding and not running freely at all. I take the cassette off to have a look at the new bearings he has installed and find that I can’t get the freehub off….

I therefore dismantled the wheel completely and had to use a rubber mallet to coax the freehub off the axle and what I discover is that the reason that the dustcap would not go fully on was that the freehub wouldn’t go on the axle properly and the LBS clearly whacked it to get it on which has compressed the bearings or something so that it won’t spin freely.

I have assumed that the reason that the freehub won’t seat properly  is because he’s put the axle in a vice or something and squashed it so it isn’t perfectly round anymore and the bearings won’t slide over it??? 🤷‍♂️ I can’t see any obvious damage and it’s not the new bearings as the old 6802 that he took out won’t slide over the axle either.

So I reckon I need a new axle. TBH the LBS should sort it but I’m not inclined to let them touch it again since as well as the cassette falling off in the shop, when I took it apart at home I discovered the adhesive spacer at the back of the spider was missing and also one of the spacers in the middle. He eventually found them both but I only noticed them one at a time so had to go back twice to get him to look for them…