Erm, help! XT M732 rear hub issue

[Disco Drive]

Advice please. Just bought a set of wheels with a 135mm axle for the wife's kestrel that has 130mm spacing (because I'm a bell-end) can I swap out the axle or is the hub shell a different width too? Also why the hell won't a 7 speed cassette fit on the freehub? It would need a 5mm spacer in order for it to tighten up!

Educate me! :?

 

[Martin]

Hub from flange to flange is wider with the 135 mm hub
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[recup]

Re:

And I guess the freehub is meant for a 8/9/10 speed cassette which is wider than a 7 speed cassette.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrd5XAQfgaA[/youtube]

 

[hamster]

You can fit a shorter 140mm (130mm OLN) axle: all you will need to do is swap to a 5mm thinner LHS spacer. A stack of washers from B&Q works as well as anything else. You will then need a minor redish of the wheel to get it centred again.

I think your hub must already be a bit of a frankenstein as M732 is 7 speed. Older Shimano hubs are all generally interchangeable in bits so it looks as though somebody has fitted an 8 speed freehub body on it. Therefore you could instead sweap back to a 7 speed body and not faff about with swapping the spacer.

 

[Disco Drive]

Thanks Hamster...it looks like that is the most plausible explanation. I've got 2 weeks to get this sorted! (the wheels are a birthday pressie for her)

 

[hamster]

I've got a 130OLN Shimano axle going spare if you need it...£5 posted?

 

[Disco Drive]

Yes please. I'll P.M you