In regards to the Phil Wood hubs, the problem is often with the ratchet ring which is threaded into the hub shell/body. The issue isn't often that the pawls themselves are faulty, they just can't engage with a faulty ratchet ring. And for whatever reason Phil Wood does not sell the tool to remove and replace the ratchet ring, even to bike shops. I've read many times that there was as bad run of ratchet rings several years back and this was a common replacement.
On my hub, the ring and pawls all look fine to me, the issue is that the spring which pushes the pawls outward into the ratchet ring isn't very strong. A ticker oil like Tenacious oil, combined with colder weather is just too much for the spring to force the pawls into the ratchet and engage. On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For the owners of cassette hubs, if you have problems with the FW > mechanism, can/do you not have a spare FW mech. on hand and replace it and > deal with fixing it(or sending it to the mfr) or trashing it later so you > don't have to send the entire wheel away ? Sending the wheel just makes no > sense nor is it really reasonable for those who don't keep spare entire > wheels on hand. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/gprQ76JepBA/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
