Campag Freehub spins slow with axle finger-tight

beardwithabike

Hi,

Hopefully an easy fix for this...

I've got a Campag rear wheel. I can loosen / tighten the two axle nuts by hand easily. Obviously unscrewing them gives me access to the cartridge bearings and also means I can remove the freehub body.

I bought the wheels secondhand and notice that if I tighten the nuts to finger tight, the freehub is very stiff and doesn't really spin much.

I'm wondering if the previous owner has lost a bearing cover on the freehub side (?). You can see the bearing in the picture below. Should this be covered? A hub schematic would do the trick but I don't know what model they are.

I've had the freehub off myself, cleaned it, regreased it and put back together... but as I say as soon as it gets finger tight it spins really slow / lots of friction.

david37

there are campag specialists in here but i would have expected to see a washer between the hub and the freehub body. was there one present? and also a spacer in the free hub

pinno

https://www.campagnolo.com/media/files/035_83_Technical manual_wheels_assembly and refitting_rear_hub_Campagnolo_12_12.pdf

Look at step 7.

What wheels are they beardwithabike? And the year.
I can find you the exact assembly.
Campag have everything on publicly accessible PdF files.