Originally Posted by
dedhed
There is absolutely no need to re-rivet the assembly. The lock ring holds it all together along with the hub splines. The riveting is strictly for ease of assembly. You just have to make sure your cog orientation (ramps etc) and spacers are correct.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense in one way. The freehub splines take the torque. I'd wonder, though, if when using a riveted assembly whether the torque is spread out over all the cogs and lowers wear on the freehub. Probably not, because a lot of clusters have individual cogs.
Still, if you have a perfectly good (rivetted) cluster, why would you take it apart? I guess if you have two clusters, and they each have different cogs that are damages or worn.
But I now know that riveting isn't necessary.