Hope XC hub

Bought one off ebay to build a front wheel up on. Bearings aren’t great so want to remove end caps maybe try popping seals and degreasing then regreasing to see if they improve. However only have got one end cap off, the disc side end cap, there’s plenty to grip onto. However the other side has very little to grip on to. Here’s a pic:

What is the procedure?

What I mean to ask is, having found not much XC specific, can I just follow the same procedure on these hubs as say the Pro II or is it different?

Also were there different models of the XC and do I need to know which this is for example replacing bearings or end caps (if my ham fisted ways smush them)?

Yes should have done research before purchasing the spokes for the particular rim/hub combo.

Take two pieces of wood @ minimum 600*150*100. Clamp 600 sides side by side in a vice and bore a hole between them. The centre of the hole should be the interface between the two pieces of wood. The size of the hole needs to be such that it grips the end cap very firmly.

Use this to clamp the end cap and thus remove it.

There’s really not much to them.

https://www.hopetech.com/_repository/1/documents/XCFrontHubExploded.pdf

Use a bit of old inner tube round the collar and use vice grips

Ah okay, over-thinking things again. I’ll try the hole in two pieces of wood method. Thanks.

Yeah, I’ve used a thin bladed screwdriver. If you can get one off then you should be able to knock it out from behind either on its own or with the bearing.

Knock it out bearing an all from the other side.

Then knock the centre out with the bearing supported in a slightly open vice.

Fine hubs if your still running qr.

Only one model of xc. Pre xc they were called sport

Xcs were almost(possibly all) all engraved logo -some have xc engraved some early ones don’t . And have a gap between flange and mount.

If it’s got stickers and no gap between the flange and the mount it’s a sport.

Hope 6001 are a fiver at CRC, it’s quite a cheap bearing size in general, might as well put new ones in so I’d just tap out the QR axle.

Ah, happy memories of the Sport and XC hubs. I only sold mine because of the change in axle spacings and sizes – they’re pretty bombproof beasties and mine had survived three sets of rims. As said above, there’s not much to them, and if you’re really stuck then give Hope a call – often you’ll be speaking to someone who had a hand in designing or making what you’re asking about.

What Trailrat says. Once you’ve got one end cap off, just bash the axle through to the other side and you have axle, bearing and cap in a form that will sit neatly in/on vice jaws for further application of the ****tting stick.

Fine hubs if your still running qr.

Or 15mm with the right bearings and a new spacer kit.

Or 15mm with the right bearings and a new spacer kit.

What’s the hope pn for that spacer kit ?

It’s custom obviously, still cheaper than rebuilding a wheel though (if you’re already replacing the bearings).

Cheers all for the further info. Got em out!

A useful tip when knocking the axles through is to put a  bolt in the axle, and hit that so it doesn’t mushroom the end. Far more effective than blocks of wood and comedy hammers.

Also try and build it so that the new spokes run in the same positions and direction (you can see the wear notches).

We’ve very rapidly broken Hope xc and Shimano flanges where hubs were rebuilt with new spokes pulling perpendicular to the old notches.