Concussion Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 (edited) As I couldn't find any good pics of the internals of a shimano freehub body...I thought I'd take an old one apart...like you do! I'm the guy with that freehub/rim thingy idea.....I couldn't stop myself! Well one pawl had turned to dust leaving only the two, the tiny, er` `spring` had snapped and the ratchet was missing some teeth...which is nice! No great surprise for a lot of you I know, just thought some shimano user might want to see, and laugh, and cry! I'm saving for a ProII, what a leap in technology that will be! I just thought of something! er`, on shimano's the pawls are fixed and the ratchet turns, where as Hopes work the other way round, fixed ratchet....does this make any difference? Not in making Hopes the better hub, just in the general design? Forgive the fairly useless post! Edited March 19, 2006 by Concussion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Forgive the fairly useless post! Useless!! i think not, really interesting to see the big s do thinge the other way around to the majority of manufacturers, the depth of the ratchet and the size of the pawls makes it no suprise that they don't last very long when used for trials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat hudson Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 not to mention those springs are turd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 not to mention those springshubs are turd True, true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onza Kieron Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 They only come with two pawls, when i had a budget, i used to service my shimano hub weekly so it would'nt slip, and it only had two, until i drilled and filed a third one in, it died a week later though. Good hubs if you wanna take it apart more than it's together and would rather walk than ride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat hudson Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 i killed one doing downhill on it the thing was i could feel my engagement points dissapearing tried to keep the last one engaged all the way to the bike shop didnt work and i had to walk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_gavo Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 after seeing that im not sure if i even trust the deore ones on my XC bike Good work fella quite interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concussion Posted March 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 They only come with two pawls, Woot, your right! The bits of metal I found in there, had to be the ratchet teeth then! Here is a picture of the pawls carriers....looked like three, don't know what the third one/thing is for though? Do they engage at the same time or are they offset? It get's worse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Is it so that the pawls are offset to each other so they engage one at a time or something, then the other bits to make it light? f**k, let's face it - it's Shimano. They were probably just bored and decided to dick around with a hub... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concussion Posted March 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 I was thinking centrifugal forces .......I know!Lighter..thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexymike Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 the round the back 1 looks like u can put a set of pawls in backward, i.e. with the ratchet teeth in the otherway round u could use it on the left, dont actually have any perticular answer for why they would do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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