Wanted Help with raceface affect freehub removal

[ishaw]

Just taken delivery of a set of these wheels. Bearings were supposed to be fine but rears are rough.

I can't quite figure out how to remove the freehub.

Nds end cap has 'loosen' and a direction and fitting for a spanner, but the drive side is a little less clear. It's got no spanner edge but does have what looks like an Allen key fitting. However, no Allen key I possess fits, all are roo small and I have a few sets.

Is it as simple as I just need a bigger Allen key?

I've looked online and nothing I've search for has yielded anything useful. Most help does not seem to be for the hubs on these wheels and end caps seem to pull off on most videos or tear downs I've seen.

 

[ishaw]

Meant to post this in the general >98 section. Oops.

Either way, have done some more research and found a pic of the nds which could be useful.

It shows an Allen key end and also the end cap removed, there doesn't seem to be any thread there so maybe it does just pull off, but it doesn't seem to want to come off by hand.

There was also a pic of the drive side which showed the drive side axle with the threaded end cap removed.

So, are these like novatech hubs where you remove the nds end cap and push the axle out from that side, then slide the freehub off from drive to nom-drive side? Or does the threaded drive side end cap need to be removed and the freehub comes off that side?

The alien key end and threaded end cap must be there for a reason right?

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

It looks to me that once the DS threaded endcap is off and freehub pulled off axle, the axle itself is driven through hub to NDS. Think the internal Allen key fitting is for holding axle while tightening/loosening threaded endcap on DS. There may be a spacer that is between bearings in hub that the axle slides through.

 

[bikeworkshop]

If you have a couple of 10mm m6 nuts and and an m6 bolt, you can make the tool to lock the axle.
(That's if it's 10mm obvs. If it's 12, that's 12mm and m

 

[ishaw]

I've got a lot of Allen keys, largest in each set is 10mm.

The axle size is 12mm. Would I be right in thinking the Allen socket would also be 12mm?

I wonder if I have any nuts and bolts as you've suggested, great idea.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Unfortunately, if the axle is 12mm, that limits the size of the socket to under that.
If it's 'Merryfield, they probably used 7/16"

Hunt through your nuts though, you may well have something that's a good fit, or could file something down.

We have a tapered Allen key fits almost anything like this

 

[ishaw]

I'd have thought if the axle was 12mm, the Allen key would be 12mm or perhaps a little larger?

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

Which part of axle are you saying is 12mm? The DS or the outside diameter of NDS?

 

[bikeworkshop]

The socket will have to be smaller than the axle - but a lot of quality axles are wider through the bearings than at the ends

 

[ishaw]

The hub takes a 12mm thru axle, so I'm guessing the Allen socket on the nds will be slightly larger? See first pic for the part in question.