Regardless of which size it is - the freehub is showing just a tiniest amount of play. The cassette sprockets themselves are tight on one another and don't move relative to one another. They all move in unison ever so slightly. Thats when I figured it wasn't the cassette or lockring. Took the cassette off and am now noticing the freehub has the play that I am blaming the cassette/spacer/lockring. It's a 12-25.
I took apart the hub/freewheel to take a look. It is pristine. No dirt or dust anywhere. It look like it was just serviced, it's so clean. The only thing I can think of is that the freehub plastic diameter is increased as noted on this website:
http://roguemechanic.typepad.com/rog...es_a_mavi.html
because I can't find anything else wrong. Just for giggles, when I had the freehub body off, I put on the cassette with the spacers, etc and the locknut snug (but not at 40 ft-lbs) and there was no play within the cassette on the freehub itself. This leads me to believe that the website mentioned above is right.
My process was pretty much like this except I didn't clean anything off and I didn't remove the rubber seal thingy.
http://www.elviskennedy.com/mavichub/index.html
So it sounds like this is a known, common issue with Mavic's. Man I wished I knew about this before I shelled out the money for them. $60 bucks for a new freehub. Wonder how long that'll last
