I noticed my rear cassette had a lot of side to side play so I tried tightening it and that didn’t fix it. I took it off and see that the play is from the free hub.
Is this normal?
Is this amount of free hub play normal?
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by MagicalSwagbat
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guy below me is correct
On plenty of wheels the free hub will just fall off as it relies on the wheel being clamped in the dropouts to keep it in. I suspect yours is the same
That’s supposed to come off so you can service the hub. It’ll even come out with the cassette on.
uWu
Looks like a monkey playing with something it has no idea what it is.
Sometimes new seals can make them fit more snug
You’re going to blind if you keep doing that you know.
Does the cassette have side to side play when the wheel is installed on the bike?
If not then yeah this is probably just a normal amount of play. As the other comment said, for many styles of hub the body is just held on by being ‘clamped’ between the dropouts when installed in the bike.
I have SRAM XDR and it does that until you clamp it to the frame. You can remove it completely even with the casette on.
There is not enough info to give a definitive solution but my guess is this hub uses threaded end caps rather than press fit ones you might see on Dt Swiss hubs and the like. Typically those axles would have a lip that held the axle in place between the 2 hub bearings so you wouldn’t be able to move the axle like that.
You can try just pressing the end caps together to see if that locks them in place but it unlikely.
What you will probably need to do is thread the non drive side end cap until it’s snug. Unless there are directions on the end cap it’s usually right hand threaded. It doesn’t need to be super tight, just enough to get rid of the play and still allow the bearings to spin freely
nOo