Originally Posted by
datako
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).
Good point. I've just seen the whole hub for really low prices, but as long as the wheel, hub casing and its built in ratchet / dog thingy are ok, the internals if available will be fine. A whole hub is ridiculously cheap if not.
I'm not sure how many miles that original hub of his had done, or why it started this misbehaviour. He seems to have covered everything that would cause the problem he describes other than a failure in some part that he hasn't found yet.