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Just picked up a rear wheel for turbo duty. It's clearly had a hard life. There's play in the freehub, so that the cassette has play in it when installed.
I took the freehub body off - axle out, loose bearings out, clean and regrease, then reassemble. Tightening the freehub body onto the hub doesn't remove the play. With the freehub in hand I can feel the wobble. Is it worth servicing?
I didn't have the tool to remove the bearing cone pictured:
Would tightening that remove the play? Or is the problem more terminal/harder to solve than that?
It's just a £30 turbo wheel, so not of great consequence how well it performs. Seems like a new freehub body would be about £20, but that's a bit rich considering what I paid in the first place.