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<\/a>It all started well enough but I could not get the\u00a0axle\u00a0shaft and bearing to come out of the brake side of the hub body. I used bigger and bigger hammers and soon had shards and splinters of wood flying all over the place, forget the\u00a0‘soft-faced hammer’ in the service notes.<\/p>\nI went inside to check the service notes again, with pins and needles in my hands from all the banging, before I got the sledge hammer out. However, a quick Google search\u00a0suggested a fantastic idea. Wrap the hub in an old cotton rag and then soak it with boiling water\u00a0straight\u00a0out of the kettle.<\/p>\n
A fairly gentle tap from the sledge hammer (well, not that gentle) and it came out, the water having expanded the aluminium hub enough to release everything. Other than a particularly pesky circlip, the rest went like a dream, tapping in the new bearings with a 17mm socket as I\u00a0haven’t\u00a0got a working vice at the moment.<\/p>\n
So, a complete hub rebuild for \u00a312.82 and a smear of grease. Can’t be bad!<\/p>\n
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My old wheels have been on Cath’s bike for a while. The rear wheel bearings in the Hope XCs have given up the ghost with the amount of riding she has been doing recently, so I thought I would have a go at the service myself. I found out the bearing reference numbers ‘6001 2rs’ … <\/p>\n
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<\/a>It all started well enough but I could not get the\u00a0axle\u00a0shaft and bearing to come out of the brake side of the hub body. I used bigger and bigger hammers and soon had shards and splinters of wood flying all over the place, forget the\u00a0‘soft-faced hammer’ in the service notes.<\/p>\n