Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
There is an 8spd freehub body on it but the locknut barely protrudes past the lockring of the cassette or the body for that matter. The locknut spacing is just shy of 130 at 129.xxx.
I am asuming either someone stuck the 8spd body on an 7spd hub and did not change the axle. Or a 8spd hub was respaced to make it fit the bike this wheel came off of.
The right-side locknut surface is determined by the height of the bearings, cone, washer and locknut outside of the
bearing surface of the freehub body. It doesn't matter if the body is a 7-spd or an 8-spd, the thickness of the bearings+cone+washer+locknut will still be the same. Only way to shorten that distance is to remove the washer and/or install a thinner locknut. The 1mm shy of 130mm indicates someone may have just left off one of the washers. I prefer to have the end of the locknut be only 1.5-2.0mm outside of the surface of the lockring to minimize dish.
Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
WHat is the simplest way to make it a 135 spaced hub again?
I have a STX 7 MTB hub here can I use the axle and spacers and put that in the 105 hub w/ the 105 cones? Or is there a good source to simply get a complete 105 spd axle set.
Yes, you just need a 146mm axle and the 5mm axle-spacer shown below (change "remove" to "add"):
