Changing campy freehub body from 8 to 9-speed?
 

Hello,

is it possible to upgrade 8 speed campagnolo rear hub into 9 speed by changing the freehub?

I was thinking about taking the 9 speed freehub from veloce hub and placing it into record 8-speed one...

thanks

any1?

Yes. You might need to add a second FH-RE017 washer on the right side too (the 9-speed freeehub is wider, and although the parts diagram show 2 spacers on some of the 8 speed hubs there may only be 1 there, and with just 1 the chain may not clear the dropout on the small cog). I converted both of my '96 chorus hubs when Campagnolo discontinued my favorite 8 speed cassette (but before the Chorus/Record freehubs dried up).

Depends on vintage - some of the newer hubs have cartridge bearings.

You may need to move the axle too (Athena/Veloce shared an axle - I have no clue if that's due to the freehub or other differences).

Yep, I've done it on a 1995 Chorus hub.

IN my opinion will be cheaper just get a new hub set. MIche rc2, like 90 bucks. Good stuff.

Campag also sells a freehub driver to use 9 speed shimano cassettes, its a C note,
then more common and wider range cassettes can be used,
beneficial like on tandems and tourers, ... its interface is steel , not aluminum.
in stock at Cambria .. at last web search.

http://www.cambriabike.com/shopexd.a...+Free+Hub+Body

You have to be careful there.

1999 Chorus/Record, 2000-2007 Centaur/Daytona/Chorus/Record, and newer Record hubs all have over-sized aluminum axles which take different free hub bodies than the older designs (meaning all 8 speed hubs) with 10mm steel axles.

Both types of freehubs exist for Campagnolo's Taiwanese built Fulcrum hubs but I don't know how they interchange, or whether the Campagnolo branded cartridge bearing hub 10mm bodies swap (obviously the axles don't).

They have Romanian factorys now too, Campag is outsourcing
like the rest of capitalist exploitation of labor.
:bang:

I've done it on my veloce/mirage sealed hubs with the steel axles.