Hello guys,
Tonight when I moved my bike on HT to do my workout, I accidentally hit my rear wheel, which fell on the cassette side… which broke.
It's a 12spd SRAM cassette. It seems like one of 3 small metal pins at the back of the cassette (next to the free wheel?) broke which makes it impossible to attach it back on the bike.
Here is a link of what it looks like: https://ibb.co/B2QDXvcN
It's the only part that's off so I don't think I have to change the whole cassette ? Can anyone please guide me on what I need to change ?
Thanks !
by fransaba
3 Comments
If you can find the pawl, just push it back in.
I don’t know if they sell individual pawls because they are quite small.
There’s nothing really “broken”, and if anything is “broken”, it’s not your cassette. The cassette attaches to the freehub body, and it’s the freehub body that came loose from the wheel. The cassette itself is fine.
You can just put it back together. The freehub body just slips onto the wheel, but you need to push the pawls (“small metal pins”) in while putting it back on. It may help to use a tool to hold in the pawls as you put it on.
(As well as we can determine from the photo) your cassette is fine. Your *freehub* is missing a pawl.
The spring is still present and looks undamaged. The pawl is around and can be reinserted. Assuming the absolute worst case and your cat ate the pawl, we need to know what specific freehub you have. What wheel was the cassette attached to?