Hi guys, I picked up a Sunday single wall wheel off a guy and didn’t realize it was almost completely seized. I already have new bearings at home, but after watching a few videos on YouTube I wasn’t able to find a wheel with this nut inside the hub. Do I need to remove it?
I don’t want to make it worse. Thanks!
(Don’t have a cone wrench to remove the nuts on the other side but that arrives tomorrow.)
by o2G2o
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Looks like it could be one of the early type cassette wheels that had a mix of sealed bearings and looseballs. I had one where the axle ran on looseballs but the cassette was on sealed bearings.
The issue here may well end up being that if it is a combo sealed+looseball, and it’s never been serviced and is – as you say – seized; you stand a good chance of stripping it down only to discover the looseball bearing races are damaged, scratched, pitted, flaked etc.
That’s a problem, because once they’re damaged, even if you clean them out, fit new loose bearings, and grease everything up, the bearings will keep clicking on the rough areas and dragging up new flakes from the race to scratch and crack the bearings and further damage the races.
You might find you have a duff wheel if that’s the case.