Is this freehub fooled?

dahat

This is a Fulcrum Quattro wheel, not 6 months old and is this safe to use or do I need a new freehub?

Beasty

Your thread title certainly fooled me.....

Raam

What's wrong with it? Dents in the splines? If so, that's quite common and shouldn't be a problem.

TheBlaaMan

It's fine. Not ideal, but not unusual. I would lightly greased it before putting the cassette back on .

dahat

Cassette was a bitch to get off and wasn't sure about getting it back on without forcing too much.

nilhg

dahat wrote: »

Cassette was a bitch to get off and wasn't sure about getting it back on without forcing too much.

Light rub of a file to get the roughest burrs off won't do any harm

Buzwaldo

You're putting out too much power. Ease up.

dahat

Buzwaldo wrote: »

You're putting out too much power. Ease up.

Clearly.

Thud

Splines are made from a soft enough material, you can get heavier metal ones (usually on cheaper wheels) but they'd add to weight of wheels.
Should be fine, removing the cassette itself will remove some of the burrs.

doozerie

It's a well known and largely inevitable consequence of steel cassettes on aluminium freehub bodies. It only happens on the individual sprockets, not on the innermost ones which are frequently bound together to move as a single block.

And of course the reason the individual sprockets are hard to remove is because they are buried in the freehub so you have to dis-engage them before you can slide them off, which can be tricky. Using two chainwhips rotated in opposite directions can help there.

Alek

Doesn't it cause problems with shifting if some cogs are offset?

doozerie

Alek wrote: »

Doesn't it cause problems with shifting if some cogs are offset?

It certainly would if the cogs were offset enough, but whenever I've encountered a freehub body where single cogs had dug in I didn't notice any appreciable difference (either such movement is well within the margin of error, or I'm broken ...I'm going with the former).