I'm about to replace the freehub on a 3 year old Hunt rear wheel, mainly because it looks mighty hard to remove the freehub bearings without specific tools, I can swap the freehub myself without a bike shop involved, and there are a few bite marks on the freehub splines anyway.
Questions is, is there anything I can do to help reduce water ingress in future?
Check the seal is correctly installed and grease it. The problem is waterproof grease will make the pawls, or ratchet, sticky.
Even if you cannot replace the bearings you can pop the seal out with a knife and pack a bit more grease.
I'm about to replace the freehub on a 3 year old Hunt rear wheel, mainly because it looks mighty hard to remove the freehub bearings without specific tools, I can swap the freehub myself without a bike shop involved, and there are a few bite marks on the freehub splines anyway.
Questions is, is there anything I can do to help reduce water ingress in future?