Whoops. Redoing my hubs and removed both cones off the axle. Help?
Well as the title goes I've gotten myself into a pickle with setting up my cones. I stupidly removed the cone on the drive side of the axle. When I went to put it back together I realized I couldn't get my cone wrench onto the cone because of the freewheel. So I decided to loosen both sides, set up the drive side, and then adjust off the Non-drive side. Now I can't seem to get things adjusted properly. Anyone have tips setting up both cones on an axle in order to get the bike to sit centered properly?
Posted Jul 24, 2017, 9:02 PM UTC
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A little math - measure the overall length of the axle, subtract the width between the dropouts (probably 125 or 126mm - you may have to measure this too), and divide the difference by two. This will tell you how many mm the axle should be sticking out past the locknut on each side. Each thread is 1mm, so just set your drive side locknut and cone with that number of threads exposed. Once you've got the DS set, when you reassemble everything, you should be within a mm or so of perfectly centered.
beauty! Didn't even think to use math! Thanks.