I have a new Reynolds wheelset with a shimano 9/10 freehub and a new SRAM 9 speed cassette. I'm not sure if the cassette is installing properly.
The cassette sprockets are all in a single unit, except for the smallest one. The main body slides easily onto the freehub and lodges against the innermost raised/flange type thing. There is not extra spacer there, only the cassette itself.
The last/smallest sprocket, which is unattached, just barely engages the splines. I know it's aligned properly, and if I push on it hard, I can feel it barely engaging the splines, but left to it's own, it rotates freely.
I aligned it and put on the lock ring and tightened the lock ring just by hand on the lockring tool (no wrench). That amount of force seems to have seated the sprocket onto the splines. It doesn't turn freely, but I don't know if that is because it's actually engaged the splines fully, or just because of friction.
Is this normal? Should I just torque to specs at this point? Anything I should be looking for?
The cassette sprockets are all in a single unit, except for the smallest one. The main body slides easily onto the freehub and lodges against the innermost raised/flange type thing. There is not extra spacer there, only the cassette itself.
The last/smallest sprocket, which is unattached, just barely engages the splines. I know it's aligned properly, and if I push on it hard, I can feel it barely engaging the splines, but left to it's own, it rotates freely.
I aligned it and put on the lock ring and tightened the lock ring just by hand on the lockring tool (no wrench). That amount of force seems to have seated the sprocket onto the splines. It doesn't turn freely, but I don't know if that is because it's actually engaged the splines fully, or just because of friction.
Is this normal? Should I just torque to specs at this point? Anything I should be looking for?