Originally Posted by
Teuchter
The orientation of the pawls was a bit of a concern. I've never worked on internal geared hubs before and stupidly it didn't dawn on me that they weren't symmetrical until I came to reassemble everything! I've referred to what images I can find online and *think* I've put them back in correctly... I know the direction they're in is correct and I put the low gear pawls in with the shallower angled faces outwards, if that makes sense.
Having just last night gone back into my hub to re-install low gear pawls that I had installed backwards the first time, I know how you feel. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why 2nd and 3rd gears worked fine, but where 1st gear was supposed to be there was an unfortunate "neutral" instead. Boy, did I feel silly!
And yes, "shallower angled face outwards" makes sense, and is (I believe) correct. Then again, I'm not sure you want to trust my judgment on this, considering my recent track record!