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In the process of changing chain and cassette my cassette has become welded to my freehub body (alloy). I've tried to remove it but following some over enthusiastic banging with a mallet ive bent the lockring thread beyond repair. So, im after a new freehub body.
Steel is heavier, £2 cheaper and im guessing more resilient, is this ok paired with an XT cassette?
I'm running xt cassette on steel freehub, when I had my wheels through lbs they advised steel better for mashers/heavy lads. Hope recommend min. XT cassette on all their freehubs anyway don't they?
hmm, im not sure. I had an SLX on their previously and when I took it off the freehub body looked a bit worse for wear. I filed off the bad bits and just stuck another SLX on. This time though it just wouldnt come off. I have a spare set of wheels on another bike, but that one is stuck on too!!
No ride tomorrow.
Steel is good. I use one on a converted singlespeed wheel as the aluminium ones don't last long unless you buy premium sprockets.
FWIW if you do get a cassette stuck the easiest way I have found is to move it one sprocket at a time you can normally twist them back with a chain whip and wiggle them off. Takes a while but better than brute force. Or prise them off using a flat head screwdriver although I've normally managed to take the whole freehub body off doing that before.
The problem with that is only the last 2 or 3 sprockets are removable individually on SLX I think. On XT/XTR its different.
For tomorrow, you could just remove the freehub with the cassette attached, assuming they're both Pro2? I do it all the time, being a lazy get.....
Screwdriver or similar fed through spokes to the back of the cassette and tapped/hit/wellied with a hammer works.
My method is to take the top two rings off, screw the lock ring back on, support the other side with two bits of wood and thump the lock ring with a rubber mallet.