Have you tried flushing the non working freewheels with solvent? It's pretty common for freewheels and even freehubs to stop working when they get really cold. The grease solidifies and keeps the pawls from catching.
Jay Hartman On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Thomas Lynn Skean < thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello, all! > > Does anyone have any experience using the "Shimanopore" freewheel on a > Phil Wood "IRD" 7-speed freewheel hub? Does anyone have any experience > using the "Shimanopore" freewheel with a "normal" (i.e. non-"IRD") 7- > speed freewheel hub? > > I've had to replace three IRD 7-speed freewheels in 7 months. The > first one (13-28) lasted a couple thousand miles but then started to > fail to catch within a reasonable amount of rotation. The next one > (non-mega 13-32) didn't work at all; the small cog was broken. The > next one (non-mega 13-32) lasted only a few hundred miles before > starting to "freeze" (introducing top-of-the-stay slack) and then, > within a week or so, began to fail to catch like the first one. > > It had just gotten cold when the first one failed. It has just been > *really* cold when the third one failed. I don't know if that's > related. > > If these freewheels typically last only a couple thousand mikes, I'll > be disappointed but I'll deal. If there's an alternative freewheel > like the Shimano I'll use those. If fteewheels are just this > inconsistent and I can't find an alternative freewheel arrangement, > I'll switch to a cassette system ASAP and move on. > > Anybody have any insights / info / suggestions? > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
