Originally Posted by
CliffordK
Also, in your first post, you talked about removing both the cassette and freehub. In general, the freehub should be fine left alone. Just remove the cassette to get better access to the bearings.
Great, that should make things easier. Figured they'd be too hard to reach with the freehub still attached.
Now, the issue is whether any damage was done causing the axle to be loose. The cones don't just unscrew themselves. So if it was tight,and is now loose, something may be broken, or extremely worn, and you won't really know until you get it all apart and cleaned up.
Don't think it would be wear, I had replaced the entire wheel about 9 months ago, and it doesn't have a lot of miles on it. I'd say it's more likely a break than wear, if it's not just loose which I'm hoping. If I have to replace any parts, I'm probably going to end up having to replace the whole wheel again
