Originally Posted by
EvilV
If it doesn't improve, these hubs are extraordinarily cheap. As long as the dogs inside the original hub casing are sound, you could buy a new hub, open it and substitute the internal unit for the defective on in your wheel. That way, you have no wheel building to do. I just got a spare one of these for £35 built into a new wheel, so you wouldn't be paying much....
No need to buy a whole hub. You can actually buy the mechanism (minus the hub) as a unit. You'll have to ask at a bike shop that sells S-A. They have a price list that shows it (or did last year).