I am cleaning up an exceptionally dirty Bianchi Eros. The freehub, rear wheel and spokes were coated in caked on dried grease. I decided to take the bearings out of the freehub and renew the grease. The drive side axle nut had no flats I could reach with the freehub in place so I removed the nut from the other side. Instead od the axle sliding out from the drive side the entire freehub slid out.

When this happened the pauls and springs inside the hub shell came out as well. Upon removing the grease seal from the drive side I found a sealed bearing.
Now, in one hand I have the axle and the internals of the free hub. inside the freehub are 1/4" ball bearings on the drive side and 3/16" balls in the non drive side cone.

There are 3 pauls with tiny springs that have to slip inside the hub body.

I tried for 2 hours and was never able to coax them back into place. I tried tying a small zip tie around everything but that didn't work. I then tried a heavy string with a loop at one end cinched arround the hub shell but could never get everything into position so I could slide the assembly back inside the shell.

Can anyone explain the proceedure for doing this. I can just get another wheel(we have plenty) but know there must be a proceedure for this. I spent a lot of time cleaning the wheel and don't my time to have been wasted.