Tom, There are indeed three bearings in there. I had my bearings go in my Phil cassette hub in one year, but that was through some nasty Canadian winter riding. Phil ended up warrantying it, but for other reasons.
I'd be surprised if your bearings were the cause of a squeak though. In my experience, worn bearings tend to click, not squeak. When you have the wheel out of the frame, turn the axle with your fingers. Is it smooth? If you can't feel notching I'd continue the squeak hunt elsewhere before attempting to pull those bearings. On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 3:40:26 AM UTC-5, Tom Harrop wrote: > > Hi all, > > This could be a silly question, but it's the internet so I'll ask anyway. > > I'm planning to change the bearings in my Phil Wood "touring" cassette > hub. I can't see instructions for replacing the bearings in that model on > their website. There is a PDF for their FSA hubs, which are different to > the cassette hubs. > > There is another PDF explaining servicing the ratchet mechanism, but it > doesn't say anything about bearing replacement: > http://www.philwood.com/philpdfs/cassette_hub_instructions_022015.pdf > > My questions: > > 1. how do I get the bearings out of the hub shell and freehub? > 2. (the silly one) I would expect the hub to contain two bearings, but > in that PDF, it looks like there are three: one on the drive side of the > hub shell (labelled D in the PDF linked above), one in the freehub body > (labelled M), and one on the left side of the hub shell (not in the > diagram, but I know it's there because I can see it). Are there really > three bearings? Should I replace them all? > > If anyone wants context, the hub is about 3 years old and seems to be > making noises. I am chasing a squeak that happens once every time the rear > wheel goes round, but only when I'm on the bike with my weight on the > saddle. I checked for loose spokes and they're all fine. The tyre isn't > rubbing, so hub bearing is my next guess! > > Thanks for reading, > > Tom > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
