However, this official upgrade now takes care of the one oversight in the equation. While
DT Swiss hubs with the star ratchet mechanism have a seal built into the hub shell, ones with pawl-type drivers have that seal built into the freehub body. In other words, if you did that upgrade in the past, you were left with no physical seal between the hub shell and freehub body, right where you needed it most.
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With this new upgrade kit,
DT Swiss has gone to the trouble of making a star ratchet freehub body with a built-in seal, so riders interested in the conversion no longer have to make that sacrifice in durability.
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