You use a lot of WD-40 for cleaning. Have you tried mineral spirits (maybe called “white spirit” in your country)? It’s cheaper and just as effective, with less smell. You could have soaked that freehub body in it overnight to clean out the old grease before adding the new grease.
Awesome vid as always. A few things: - The hub you pulled off is a UG (Uniglide) hub and needs a threaded last (small) cog to fix the cassette onto the body. The spline pattern is differnt to a HG hub since all the splines are the same width unlike the HG where there is a larger groover/smaller spline. you can make it work with a HG if you file down the splines on the casette and use a cog from a UG cassette to thread it onto the hub - If you refurb a hub shell you would usually go with oil, not grease (i recently had to repair a UG hub where i flushed the gunked up hub with WD40 and put in new lubricant)
Thank you mate! Ahhh yes Uniglide ! Thats it. Haha yes you are right the splines were all the same size and didn’t fit when I tried 😅 That’s cool knowing its possible to make it fit. Thanks for the info , very helpful cheers!
I am using a DX hub with a uniglide body but has a 7 speed Hyperglide installed. There could be a time that the transition to HG had used the same spline designs as the UG ones.
Nice to see this ESGE Centerstand on your bike…I filed down one of these on the same side too, to get a solid stand on my girlfriends old bike…funny😉as always good build, dude👍🏻😎
Looks good! Funny how little tweaks sometimes turn into big projects. I'm about to undo a dropbar conversion on my 90s bianchi grizzly for surly sunrise bars. I'll be adding a front rack too. Hoping it all goes smoothly!
Yo you probs already know but save old Allen head screws from water bottle mounts or road caliper brake shoes and use them for the eyelet mounts on bike. Way better than the screw driver heads !
Great vid, next time use a brake cable and thread it through some of the holes on the hub and wrap that around a block of wood. Doesn’t always save the hub but it is way easier.
Nice work as always Gary, admire your patience with switching around at the back. Would have driven me insane haha I am suprised that you got the stand working at the stays. From my experience I could never get them to clamp down properly, they would always rotate under load eventually
Cheers mate ! Ya the rear was a bit of pain , not gunna lie 😂. Mmm yeah I think the old inner tubes might help with the twisting of the stand maybe ? So far it’s working well , but will see how it goes 🫡
Jesus… absolutely murdered that poor exage hub 😢 You only need to lace a few spokes on a rim to get enough leverage, or use some rubber on the pipe wrench pliers.
So how many bikes have you taken apart??? It is nice one can refit a bike but there is too many parts that need to go back together...and specialized tools needed...i would have drill a new hole on front fork for rack, current hole too close to wheel axil...
