Perhaps all your hub needs is to be repacked with new grease and adjusted
to take the lateral play out.
Is it a freewheel hub, or a cassette freehub?
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/free-k7.html
On Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 3:32:25 PM UTC-4, lum gim fong wrote:
>
> Free*wheel* 7-speed cassette rear hub.
>
> A quiet knocking noise with weighted pedaling has started.
>
> Hub spins gravelly in the hands, and when I pinch the 36-tooth cassette
> cog between my thumb and index finger and wiggle, there is a tiny bit of
> play.
>
> Do I need a new wheel, or can this be inexpensively overhauled?
>
>
>
> *Other question is,* if I just replace the wheel with a spare wheel I
> have (it is an LX 8-speed shimano type freehub wheel, with a 7-speed
> cassette and 4.5 spacer on it), will is work with the existing indexing
> shimano 7-speed derailers and shifters? Dropout spacing is the same.
>
>
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