I've found a lot of variability in freehub diameters among some of the various boutique hub brands, ranging from impossibly oversized to intolerably sloppy, even on the same model hub from one batch to the next. Phil had some issues with pawls and/or the drive ring chipping and breaking, which made for crunchy engagement and eventually full hub destruction, but that's not the issue you're describing here. At first they were fixing them for free (with the same lousy parts that failed originally), but after they did the freehub redesign, it wasn't free anymore.
Cheapest/quickest attempt at a solution is to try a different cassette. Jim On Sunday, December 14, 2014 2:59:03 PM UTC-6, David wrote: > > There doesn't appear to be any digging into the the body, no. It's just a > really, unusually snug fit, like obnoxiously snug... like the maker didn't > machine it to spec. > > At any rate, thanks Bill and Tim. > > On Saturday, December 13, 2014 9:27:58 AM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> Is the issue that your steel cogs have dug into an aluminum hub body? If >> so, I'd use that as a reminder to just get away from aluminum freehub >> bodies forever. If your wheel is perfectly good, then I would live with >> it, maybe try to file away gouges to make things a little more workable, >> and stock up on these: >> >> XT Rear Hub >> <http://www.ebay.com/itm/Shimano-Deore-XT-FH-M750-8-9-10-Speed-MTB-32H-Rear-Hub-/111546833787?pt=US_Hubs&hash=item19f8b59b7b> >> >> 32 hole XT rear hubs are right at that sweet spot. Still plentiful and >> the disc crowd doesn't want them. $30 for 32 hole rear is a good price. >> 36 hole rear hubs are much more scarce, so expect to pay $60 or so. >> >> When your Phil wheel is due for a new rim, build around an XT, sell your >> Phil hub for parts and move on. >> >> On Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:49:35 PM UTC-8, David wrote: >>> >>> Evening, group. Anyone here (1) run a Phil cassette hub on their Riv, >>> and (2) come to find the cassette does not release or install onto the hub >>> body without significant force/wrangling/finagling involved? It's really >>> bizarre. I have a Phil cassette hub on my Hilsen and I have this issue. >>> Called Phil today. I'm told that I have an older generation cassette hub >>> that has 4 pawls instead of the new 5 pawl hub body. So, Phil wants $266 >>> from me (plus shipping both ways) to install the current gen cassette hub >>> and ratchet ring. No warranty on Phil parts, apparently. Riv installed >>> the cassette hub on my Hilsen in 2010, and I'd very much assume the guys >>> who built my Hilsen up would've noticed a fussy fit between the cassette >>> and the hub body. But how did this happen? >>> >>> Does this scenario speak to anyone here? If so, do you know of another >>> workaround, as an alternative to dealing with Phil. >>> >>> Thanks for your time, >>> >>> David >>> Sacramento, CA >>> >> -- 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.
