So I've been riding the free night planetary free coaster for a little over a month
now you guys might remember the video that I did showing you the
Internals of the hub and all of the other videos that I've done
Testing out this hub and showing the differences between it and other free coasters and showing this
revolutionary new design if you remember the internals video I showed you an in-depth look at the actual insides of
what this hub looks like and how it kind of works and
After a month, I've had a lot of questions about the internals of the hub itself
Which is something that really not very many people have experience with as far as longevity goes
So what we're going to do today is take this thing back
apart and take a look at the internals after a month of hard riding with this hub and just
See how they look in the condition that they're in after I've been riding it and putting it through the paces
to kind of get an idea of how
Durable and reliable this hub is going to be moving into the future
because like I've said previously
not that many people have had this hub for an extended period of time so we really don't know yet the answers to the
Reliability and durability questions. So let's get this thing apart and take a look at the insides
So the first thing that we need to do to take it apart is obviously to get a take off our hardware
let's get a little bit closer focus, so
Obviously axle nut comes first
In the washer, we're gonna set those aside
next up we've got
The jam nut on the drive side
So we're gonna take that apart as well
And to do that we need our shoutout the park tools
Because we need a 8 millimeter allen for our axle and then we need the wrench size for the jam nut self
So, I guess this kind of serves as a how to take apart this hub as well
Because we're going to be taking the axle all the way out
We're gonna set this aside as well we didn't want to lose that
And now we can take out the driver. So we've got our jam nut off
Let's pop out our driver. Here we go first time after a month of riding and
It doesn't want to come out again
There we go, all right, here's the first impressions you guys are seeing it first
Boom here is the driver
Personally
After inspecting it here. I
Honestly feel like this looks exactly like it did whenever we first got this hub
Paws come up spring back down. All of them do exactly what they're supposed to do
It doesn't look like it's worn whatsoever. Now the inside of the hub after we set this driver's side
the inside of the hub
Looks so about the same the inside teeth. Don't look worn
Whatsoever to me they literally look brand-new exactly how they did when I first got it
As far as the internals go everything looked great
It all seems perfect to me. So the next step would be we want to take out
our
spacer here
If I can get it out
With my fingers I can that brings the little clutch disc it hit
With the gear let's just drop that out and here you can see this
Absolutely, no wear
whatsoever the teeth look perfect, the
Inside of this also looks perfect. Okay
So the next thing that we need to take out of here is the clutch
assembly, which actually kind of just comes out on its own it seems like
so I'm gonna grab a
small allen wrench
and once again, I'm sorry for doing this I
Know
that uh
It's not necessarily
what you guys wanted me to do, but
this is very important stuff for the longevity of this hub and just
making sure that it works the way it's supposed to so here's the clutch disc a
Close-up look at that
They don't actually think that I took this out in the first video. No, I definitely didn't so this clutch assembly
Just pops out of the hub
and this is kind of
some of the
mystery of the hub itself
So if you get this hub just don't do it. Don't take this out. You're gonna take the driver out fine
Don't take this part out because there's little pieces in here that if they get lost or if they get messed up
Your hubs not gonna work the way it's supposed to
So we're gonna set that aside
And take another look at the internals
This is after one month of writing. Everything looks brand-new inside still
Obviously one month isn't a very long time
But still it looks brand-new on the inside and that's good news
First step to taking the axle out as we set get all of the hardware and driver out
So that when we hit this thing through here going this way
There's nothing up here to prevent it from going through
This is actually just like a profile hub in how it disassembles and what you're gonna want to do
Next is take your axle nut and thread it all the way onto the axle
Until the axle and the end of the axle nut are flush at each other
So as you can see right here
Axle and axle nut are flush
This means that it's going to be safe to hit this with a hammer and that is exactly what we're about to do
Got my shout out the park tool hammer here and a quick tip with this is that you can use a block of wood on
Top of all of this to make it even safer. I'm not going to do that right now, but I would definitely recommend it
So what we're gonna do is literally just hit this axle and push the other
Bearing out through this side. Everything is going to come out
So be ready to catch it and all we got to do is Cameron one time
I have not done this before it just popped out perfectly. So it's actually pretty cool
So now we can loosen our axle nut back up
and
We can just slide our axle out and it's that simple
And since this is doubling as a how to disassemble and reassemble the free night planetary coaster video. Let's quickly run through
Reassembling this hub now, I'm not totally sure how I'm going to edit this
But if you took this thing apart all the way down to a bare axle
The first thing that you're going to do is slide the bearing back onto your non Drive side
Then after that we're going to replace our cone spacer on the non-drive side
Get it all the way tightened down
Snug it up by hand, and then we're going to just slide it back into your hub
To do this we have to line up the axle with the bearing on the opposite side
And once we get it all lined up, we got everything good
Let's take an axle nut and thread it onto our non-drive side all the way on to it
Now that it's flush we can take our shout out to park tool hammer and
Gently hammer it back into the hub
Very simple back in place as you can see here
We've got our axle in here the bearing and everything looks good
The next thing that we're going to do is grab our clutch assembly right here
And as you can see this triangle piece can come off if it does just line everything back up and get it
Properly reassembled just like that
I do not recommend messing with this at all
If you don't have to but once it's reassembled
we can take our spacer with the big side pointing outward towards the same side as the triangle piece and
Just slide our spacer into it
Making sure that everything lines up properly
If it does it will be perfectly flush with this outside once we've got it all together
We can grab our wheel
And before we put this on here
I want to show you guys the inside of this hub if you can look and I'll probably put some arrows here. There are little
Indentations around the outside of the bearing and that is where the outside pieces of this
clutch piece line up
So this piece right here lines up with an indent on the hub and when we put this back together
We're gonna slide a clutch disc assembly onto here and I'm gonna have to take a look to make sure everything's good
you can simply rotate the axle to line up the
Indentations with the clutch piece and once everything is lined up properly. Let me double check here. Yes
Everything is good. We can push a clutch assembly
All the way in and make sure that is fully seated in the hub
So it looks like I've got everything in properly here's another look at it
This is what it should look like
Once you have all of this good you can grab your driver again and since the driver just the pawls
Force themselves down you can literally just put your driver back on push it into the hub
That is good to go. We can grab our jam nut for the dry side
Thread it back on to our axle
superfast
and from there
We're done again
Everything is good everything
Sounds good, so we can reassemble our axle nuts put our hub guards
But anything else that we need to back onto the axle and that's how you reassemble this thing. Listen pay
cassette
Free coaster
Set free coaster
It doesn't I don't even have to say anything it speaks for itself listen
You're speaking. I don't even need to get close like that from here it
Speaks for himself and then it's silent because it's a free coaster directly after being set