Need help with cassette installation!
 

I was cleaning y cassette and chain for the first time off the bike by soaking them in a degreaser. While doing so I didnt pay attention and let the cassettes just fall out not paying attention to the order of the the cassettes and the SPACERS. Can anyone point me to where I can see the order of the spacers in a 10 speed Sram cassette?? Thanks!

The order of the spacers doesn't matter, just make sure that there is one between each cog and that the cogs are in order and have the stamped number facing out. IIRC the last 2 or 3 cogs have integrated spacers.

Just start with the biggest ring, then a spacer, then the next biggest ring, a spacer, and so on until you run out of spacers. The last couple of rings don't need a spacer because it is built into the rings. That's the way I always do it anyway.

Edit: Beat to the punch.

Oh OK, simple enough. Thanks!

Just look at your cog rings and look at your spacer sizes, and work from large to small for both.

Thanks for the response but in my case the size of all the spacers are the same.

weird.
2 rival cassettes & 1 red cassette on my bike
1 rival cassette on my girlfriend's bike

never saw a spacer. just the gears.

did you ever install a rival cassette?

if you were asking me - yes. after hearing about cassette spacers i even went to a bike shop to ask the mechanics if i needed them, and was told no.

We are talking about the spacers between the cogs. The 1070 cassettes have them, but the 1090 (red) cassettes do not.

ok. on mine, i believe the spacers are part of the cogs themselves.
and yea on the 1090 it's all one piece anyway.

The red cassette is all one piece except for the last cog, which has it's own spacer "built in".

The 1070 cassettes are individual cogs except the 3 lowest which are bolted together. All of the individual cogs need spacers betweem them, but the 3 highest have them "built in". So the middle 4 cogs need spacers. These spacers are all identical.

i dont know how you managed to not notice.

OP...the next time you removed the cassette, place your index finger on the axle (like you're pointing into the center of the cassette). Slip everything off the hub onto your finger. Replace your finger with a tie-wrap. Clean as all one unit...a loose tie-wrap will let you take a brush to everything that needs brushing. To install, put your finger back into the center of the cassette, cut tie-wrap, take everything off your finder starting at the big cogs.

This is what I do.

Thanks guys. I originally posted this while the cogs/chain were soaking in degreaser. If I had waiting until I put them together I would known that the procedure was pretty self explanatory. Without the spacers the cogs would have zero space in between them on the hub thus not working. I didnt realize it would be so obvious but thanks for the help!