Doh! broke the freehub dust cover on my Raleigh Road Ace

[oldskool99]

Hi all, a newbie here, really hoping someone can help me out.

I recently bought a very tired raleigh road ace (1987 - Shimano 600 groupset) - reliving my youth possibly. Have completely stripped and de-rusted, degreased, cleaned everything with the intention to try to get it back to its glory.

Sadly, when removing the bearings from the Shimano 6sp FH6208 freehub, I had the bright idea of popping out the dust covers to clean the races thoroughly. All the other hub dustcaps came off beautifully, but the one covering the freehub side just cracked and broke into a few pieces. I'm blaming the ancient UV-damaged plastic, but I know it was probably just heavy handedness on my part.

I've been searching everywhere, but I can't seem to get one of these covers anywhere. That seems to leaves me with the option of buying a new/old complete freehub at at least £50 just for the sake of a little piece of plastic.

Anyone got any thoughts or suggestions that might help out?

Cheers in advance for any assistance.

 

[oldskool99]

Re:

should have mentioned this is Uniglide...

 

[bagpuss]

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Anything here that you could use?
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/search/?ter ... no%20seals

 

[oldskool99]

Thanks bagpuss, unfortunately I can't find what I need on SJS. Another pic is attached of the broken seal and hub showing the seal from the inside this time.

It's an awkward thing to find, I don't have a part number that I can find to search on, and I am really starting to think I would have to spend a hodload on a replacement freehub which doesn't make a great deal of sense on a bike that is already in pretty bad shape :facepalm:

Unless anyone can help? Any donor hubs (even non-working) out there that might have a half decent seal I can prise out correctly this time. I found out too late that this needs to be done by working from the inside of the hub and pushing the seal out with a screwdriver, every day's a school day...

Thanks to all who've taken the time to read about my blunderings!

 

[cce]

exploded diagram here: https://si.shimano.com/pdfs/ev/EV-FH-6207-6-0605A.pdf

part number 15, right hand dustcap pn 359 0600

now you just need a TARDIS....

 

[oldskool99]

Nice one retrobike rider!

It is a FH6208 rather than the 6207, but after looking up the 6208 on that website, turns out the dustcap part number is the same for both. Very handy resource for old shimano bits and bats, thanks.

The hunt continues...

*fires up TARDIS, pops a jelly baby and dons multicoloured scarf*
Tom Baker - the best Doctor obviously

 

[oldskool99]

you can tell I'm a newbie, I meant "Nice one cce!"

 

[oldskool99]

darn it, absolutely no joy under that part number

Don't suppose anyone else can help? I am scuppered otherwise

 

[Midlife]

Buy an old hub...tenner on ebay for example.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Shim ... SwyTtcMyFJ

 

[oldskool99]

thanks midlife

I've been scanning ebay for a few days, but hubs all have different shape and size dustcaps that won't fit my hub. Unless you know that the 105 hub (or another) uses the same type of dustcap as the one I have. I could replace the complete hub, but the bike has a lovely 600 groupset throughout that I don't reallly want to lose for the sake of a dustcap. I also am not sure whether another hub, for example a 105 hub like the one you linked to (I do understand that was just an example) would work with the cassette I have, in which case I would then have to buy another cassette too.

Finding a Shimano FH6208 Freehub, even in poor condition, for less than £50 is proving impossible.