So I got a new Bike and obviously wanted to remove my dork disc. I unscrewed the cassette and removed my dork disc. Then I proceded to place my cassette on the freehub body. It slided right on there. When I tightened I noticed that the cassette was still kind of wobbly and didnt sit flush with he freehub body at all. Also It was really somewhat hard to screw It on. The cassette also looked was somewhat off-center in the end caps. I then unscrewed the cassette again and noticed that the first thread had sheared off (at least I think).
Can I still use the cassette and freehub body or so I need to replace both? I worked with Shimano freehubs for years and this ist my first XDR cassette and freehub.
by Scholzi-C137
3 Comments
Maybe?
Try to clean up the threads as best you can with a metal pick, and try again. You’ve clearly cross threaded this, but it looks like you’ve got enough good thread left to make this work.
Try again.
Same thing happened to me… my solution was to get a new driver and keep the cassette (seemed like the most cost effective way to fix my mistake) and it worked
It looks like you cross threaded the cassette. It will probably be very challenging to get the cassette on straight threaded now since the first thread is pretty wasted. If you can get it on straight you might be good, although ofcourse the hub life is now reduced, I wouldn’t. See a reason for catastrophic failure, since you have plenty of thread onto which the cassette wil fasten itself further while pedaling. Do get rid of all aluminum particles, or your bearings will also be screwed quite soon…