Originally Posted by
EvilV
I'd never put in more balls than the manufacturer did. Why would one think an amateur mechanic knows more about the required number of balls than the designer and manufacturer?
That isn't meant to sound rude - it's just an observation.
Maybe when they are all seated and the cones are adjusted up, they are binding because they don't have enough room.
Hmmmm? I don't have extra ball bearings inside my hub.
But my hub was pretty loose when delivered ... there was a lot of play in the wheel. I didn't realize how loose until after cleaning parts of the hub with a degreaser after which the hub sounded a little crunchy. I figured some dirt fell deep into some cracks. I loosened the lock and cone nuts to clean inbetween some of the components quickly and to re-coat a few workings with grease. Afterwards, I tightened the nuts such that it fit with my priors regarding how a hub should feel after repacking a standard hub/freehub.
Anyway, my problem is that I don't have a good sense of what "normal" is with the SA 8 hub.