Originally Posted by
imobilinpedalus
It says little about the symptoms for a too tightly fitted cone, but i bet the most easily observed symptom for this as i previously mentioned is, my crank arms will "follow" long as the rear wheel is turning freely.
This is still a little strange to me. It sounds like you're having a problem with the freewheeling mechanism in your cassette body. Which should not be affected by the cone adjustment. But I suppose if you crank down the cones way too much it might be enough to stiffen up the freehub mechanism.