Leaving single pawl in a 120pt Chosen hub for noise reduction
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As I see it you have two choices:
1. Buy an inherently quiet hub like a Shimano and learn the not-difficult art of adjusting cup-and-cone bearings every year or so.
2. Learn to live with the noise.
Removing pawls from your current freehub is a dreadfully poor, dangerous idea and grease will be a temporary fix and may cause cold weather engagement problems. I.e. the hub will freewheel both ways.
1. Buy an inherently quiet hub like a Shimano and learn the not-difficult art of adjusting cup-and-cone bearings every year or so.
2. Learn to live with the noise.
Removing pawls from your current freehub is a dreadfully poor, dangerous idea and grease will be a temporary fix and may cause cold weather engagement problems. I.e. the hub will freewheel both ways.
Grease will disable the pawls only if it gets behind the springs.
Will have to try out NLGI0 PFPE grease with 500cst or 800cst base oil viscosity this time. Last time went for NLGI2 for some reason which typically lasts for 30-50km or around 25 miles before it gets displaced. NLGI0 might flow back where it needs to be without leaking out.
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What we used to call "Famous last words." The problem is not confined to grease getting behind the springs. I used to see a few broken freewheels each winter in New England, always as a consequence of the bike owner filling the freewheel with grease. If the spring in your freehub is robust enough to force the pawl through the grease such that it engages fully, great. If not, a pawl failure can be quite a surprise when it happens.
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Don't be so sure. Having three points of contact in a load bearing structure tends to distribute forces equally over all three parts. That's why all modern freehubs are designed around having sets of three pawls engage simultaneously.
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I have already went trough cup and cone phase. Some were easier to get right than others.
Grease will disable the pawls only if it gets behind the springs.
Will have to try out NLGI0 PFPE grease with 500cst or 800cst base oil viscosity this time. Last time went for NLGI2 for some reason which typically lasts for 30-50km or around 25 miles before it gets displaced. NLGI0 might flow back where it needs to be without leaking out.
Grease will disable the pawls only if it gets behind the springs.
Will have to try out NLGI0 PFPE grease with 500cst or 800cst base oil viscosity this time. Last time went for NLGI2 for some reason which typically lasts for 30-50km or around 25 miles before it gets displaced. NLGI0 might flow back where it needs to be without leaking out.
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I ride Campy hubs. When servicing the freehub, I put one drop of Finish Line Wet Chain Lube on each pawl and smear two or three drops around the engagement ring. It makes them practically silent. Now give it to me for using chain lube on the pawls.
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For how long does it last before leaking out?
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Right okay, then there is no other option but to try out the NLGI0 grease first, then Lucas engine assembly lube and if that doesn't work then bite the bullet and get the Phil wood Tenacious oil or Dumondetech grease. On the other hand people say high engagement freehubs are inherently noisy and there is nothing you can do about it.
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Right okay, then there is no other option but to try out the NLGI0 grease first, then Lucas engine assembly lube and if that doesn't work then bite the bullet and get the Phil wood Tenacious oil or Dumondetech grease. On the other hand people say high engagement freehubs are inherently noisy and there is nothing you can do about it.
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me i just put grease in my campy hubs. no noise, no leaks, no broken chins…
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Aren't shorter springs stronger? Previously I have just bent them more inwards to be less forceful, but it didn't make ant difference in terms of loudness or grease longevity.
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Aren't shorter springs stronger? Previously I have just bent them more inwards to be less forceful, but it didn't make any difference in terms of loudness or grease longevity.
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Terrible idea, IMO. But I understand the desire.
i don’t find my DT swiss too loud, and on my MTB even the Hopes are “acceptable”, though I would prefer quieter. But my fat bike came with a rear hub with CK level noise, and it drives my crazy. It feels excessive to buy buy or build a new rear wheel just for this, but I am still tempted to do it.
i don’t find my DT swiss too loud, and on my MTB even the Hopes are “acceptable”, though I would prefer quieter. But my fat bike came with a rear hub with CK level noise, and it drives my crazy. It feels excessive to buy buy or build a new rear wheel just for this, but I am still tempted to do it.
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Any grease I have on hand, it doesn't matter really as long as it isn't some thick wheel grease from 1985...
We like to think that the type of grease makes a difference... but really, keep it clean and free of debris. Beyond that, doesn't matter much.
What I have on hand right now and use is a tub of Kendal Super Blu L427 probably 20 yrs old now at least. I have a tub of Campy grease also but I don't use that much anymore except on loose stuff.
I have used phil grease also. Its grease...
We like to think that the type of grease makes a difference... but really, keep it clean and free of debris. Beyond that, doesn't matter much.
What I have on hand right now and use is a tub of Kendal Super Blu L427 probably 20 yrs old now at least. I have a tub of Campy grease also but I don't use that much anymore except on loose stuff.
I have used phil grease also. Its grease...
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I have some Lucas engine assembly oil which is supposed to be even more tacky and snotty than Phil Wood Tenacious oil, but it still creeps away in about one hour leaving nothing behind. Grease just gets displeased. Could use ferrofluid as a lubricant if engagement ring was magnetic, but people said it will attract metallic road grit so...
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Unlike a stool legs - for which three is the largest number that still perfectly engages uneven surfaces with all three legs - there is nothing special about three pawls that guaranties they will engage evenly if something is misaligned.
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Finding to buy one that checks all of the boxes and trade offs currently seems to be too complicated. Currently the prices have doubled for bike components while selection is reduced.
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After reading rare comments on the internet about semifluid grease being good enough to silence noisy freehubs I'm trying to choose between NLGI0 or NLGI00.
I use a semi fluid grease, doesn’t cause pawls to stick, and doesn’t spread out like thick grease, causing the pawls to become noisy again. Simples
NLGI0 (soft) doesn't seem to want to flow below certain mass. NLGI00 (semifluid) might leak out/wash out while also not being thick enough to reduce the noise.
It has been said that every type of application depending on a specific geometry and other requirements needs a different lubricant, so knowing the sheer amount of different types of freehub teeth shapes and counts it might not be that easy to find the most optimal one.
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It could but I don't know for how long the engagement ring will stay magnetic enough. Embedding rare earth magnets under the engagement ring might work better. If it works just as good as springless freehubs with magnets in pawls then it should have been tried out and tested already. All I know is that ferrofluids get used as lubricants and can also form a vacuum tight seal if necessary, bicycle might not be the most justified and appropriate application for it though.
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The cup and cone bearings are hard to adjust just right in general. Shimano now makes few wheels with cartridge bearings such as WH-MT601
using 145mm OLD truough axles and disc brakes only as far as I know. Since I happen to have available rim brakes only at the back of the Thorn Audax Mk3R frame then Shimano is still out of the question. Also couldn't find any videos with WH-MT601 hub sound.
using 145mm OLD truough axles and disc brakes only as far as I know. Since I happen to have available rim brakes only at the back of the Thorn Audax Mk3R frame then Shimano is still out of the question. Also couldn't find any videos with WH-MT601 hub sound.
And since I have spare bearings for current wheel already stocked up then buying new wheels is not justifiable.
And either cutting the springs or installing shorter ones is just a bad idea. You would reduce the amount of the pawl that is engaged on the engagement ring so you are just catching the very edge of the teeth. You’ll either end up breaking teeth or not engaging at all. Again, quit trying to modify your hubs. It’s a really bad idea.
If it is too complicated, then learn to live with what you have. Ignore it or learn show tunes. Oklahoma is a favorite of mine.
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