Can I fit an adapter kit to a Sun Ringle Dirty Flea front Hub?

[kandui]

Can I fit an adapter kit to the front hub to fit a Through Axle? Works for the Stan's hubs.

Edited April 14, 2012 by kandui

[ichnusa]

I would also like to know...

[jiggs]

I want to know aswell. My lbs says no.

[kandui]

Looks like No to me. I tried to pull out the bits you push the skewer through (technical term eludes me), but they won't come off. With my Stan's hubs you grab them with a pair of pliers and pull them off and push the bigger ones on. Simple.

So I'm riding the Stan's on the front with the Through Axle fork and a Dirty Flea on the back with a skewer.

[mad bout mtb]

No you can't.

[Goodbadugly]

It can be converted. Depends on how desperate you are. And if you have a friend with a metal lathe. Roll your own.

1. Buy 2x 6902 bearings. (id15mm and od28mm) The bearings in my Dirty flea front hub have a outside diameter of 28mm.
   
2. Get the guy with the lathe to make you a tube with an id of 15mm and a od of 19mm. 66.6mm long. (aluminum) This goes inside the hub between the two bearings. This tube should be long enough to push "outward" against the inner races when tightening the qr. Otherwise the pressure from the qr will run on the balls of the bearings.
   
3. Now to get the spacing right. 2x tubes with a id of 15mm and od of 20.5mm on the contact side of the fork and about 19mm on the bearing contact side. They should be 9.8mm long. Get your friend to engineer flanges on these to keep rubbish from comming into contact with the bearing seal.
   
4. Thus: 7mm+7mm for the 2 bearings, +9.8+9.8+66.6=100mm.
   
5. The outer tubes of 9.8mm each will be loose fitting. They won't clip into a groove like the Stans ones. Be carefull not to loose these. And you will have to line them up every time you insert the skewer.
   
6. Only for 15mm through axle. Mine is a SID.
   

Use the above info at your own risk. Mine works 100%. An I have my own lathe.

Edited April 15, 2012 by Goodbadugly

[kandui]

Thanks Goodbadugly. I think I will stick to running the Stan's hub on the front for the time being.