I have done these swaps lots of times sometimes changing out the freehub body as well. I recently changed out an old MTB wheel with m737 XT 8spd 135 hub to a 7spd 130 hub for use on my '93 XO-3 which unfortunately has road spacing (128mm) on a 26" wheel. Someday I should get the frame re-spaced, but I have been saying that for a decade. I have generally take old 135 hubs and converted them to 130 or 132.5, but have also gone the other direction. I have done this on STX, LX, 105, Ultegra and XT hubs from the early to mid 90s. More modern hubs with cone shaped rubber seals are easy to go bigger but harder to go smaller, but not impossible. Swapping from a 130 to a 135 is not much harder that re-greasing all the bearings, but you should redish the wheel afterwards.
The most modern XT hubs with aluminum ends and without the typical threaded axles and the threaded locknut, cone combo might be impossible, I'm not sure. Instead of harvesting the axle from your STX, you might just want to buy a longer axle (146mm is the correct size) from wheels manufacturing and a 5mm spacer at your local bike shop. Contact me if you need any help. http://wheelsmfg.com/products/hub-parts/all-axles/axle-04.html -Dave J On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 4:16:14 PM UTC-5, Joe Bernard wrote: > > My soon-too-be-shipped CLEM frame is going to need wheels, and I have a > dilemma. I have a lovely handbuilt mid-'90s XT-hubbed rear wheel with 130 > spacing, and a same era STX RC wheel with 135. Is it possible for me to > extract the 135 axle out of the STX and put it in the XT? Or is there some > simpler way to make my XT wheel fit my CLEM? > > Thanks, > Joe Bernard > Vallejo, CA. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
