dmr drone rear wheel :(

konablaster
konablaster Posts: 135
edited December 2007 in MTB workshop & tech
ever since i gave my wheel to my local bike shop to have my freewheel removed, something has not been right with the hub. When i got it back, there was (and has been ever since) a cruved metal and rubber washer falling out of the hub on the micro thread side. I've tried both ways to try and fit this back in and both times it falls straight back out. The other problem is pitted cones. I dont know how this formed as it was fine before it went in, and the bike shop shoudn't have had to touch the cones anyway, only to remove the axle so that the wheel laid flat. Now, i have just re-greased all my bearings, put everything back together and i have two problems:

1. axle is sticking or not moving at all

2. even tohugh i have done the lock nuts up and the cones up, when the wheel is back in the frame and is ridden a short distance, the wheel becomes loose in the cones again.

Any suggestions?
By the way, the bikes only 3 months old :( do you think i can get it from warranty?
Jump it. Huck it. Case it. Crash it. Get backup. Do it again.

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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    you are not tightening the cones and lock nuts up correctly.

    But if you are not happy with the work done by the shop take it back.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • konablaster
    konablaster Posts: 135
    yea, i have done it up properly. I don't really want to take my wheel back to them due to it being halfords and the wheel came back with a broken freewheel. They had drilled it, hit it with a hammer, chislled it and then gave it back to me with the freewheel still attached.
    Jump it. Huck it. Case it. Crash it. Get backup. Do it again.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    konablaster wrote:
    yea, i have done it up properly. I don't really want to take my wheel back to them due to it being halfords and the wheel came back with a broken freewheel. They had drilled it, hit it with a hammer, chislled it and then gave it back to me with the freewheel still attached.

    Err take it back and complain! there is no need for that. It is criminal damage.

    Oh it is now very unlikly that DMR will do any thing if Halfords have Fubared it.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • konablaster
    konablaster Posts: 135
    can you reccomend a place to buy cones from? just thinking that new cones will help with that sticking a bit. I got 22 mm cones, on a 14mm axle.
    Jump it. Huck it. Case it. Crash it. Get backup. Do it again.

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