Originally Posted by burrlamb

I was wondering what those were, they don’t come out easy so I didn’t force the issue. But it seems to me when the dust caps are pushed as far in as I can push them in. They’re in contact with the bearings and slow everything down. The black material is not metal so it seems like there’s a lot of friction between the bearings and those black seals. The gap between my dust cap and the hub is about 1/16”.

I took 79pmooney’s advice and just put the thing together and took it out for a ride. I pushed the desk caps and as far as I could push them, and of course the wheel was not spinning freely at all, but maybe tolerable. I’ll take some more pictures of the relationship between the locknuts cones and dust cap.

today I took my first ride on this new old bike. It’s pretty clear to me that Campagnolo did not have index shifting figured out. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the shifting correct but that will be a separate thread.🤪