Drag maintenance?
Submitted by tomtom on Sun, 2015-05-17 20:47
The drag on my Penn Spin SSV7500 was starting to stick so decided to strip the drag and re grease it following instruction from the local tackle shop. Cleaned it all up and put a very light coating of Shimano drag grease on the steel washers then put it all back together. It felt heaps better just spinning it with my hand on different drag settings so headed off to the local rock wall.
First cast out, go to set the drag and it is sticky as hell! Way worse than it was before and very little if any clicking sound. It was chucking it down with rain and thinking maybe I did something wrong that allowed some water to get in there?
Could anyone give me an indication where I went wrong?
D_d_001
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Extremely hard to tell what
Extremely hard to tell what is the prob without seeing the reel.
couple of things when greasing the washers only put the smallest amount of grease on (tiny thin layer....wipe most off)
also if the washers are replaced in the wrong way (incorrect order) they can get sticky. biggest symptom is the drag getting tighter and tighter as you pull line off. IE the drag knob slowly turns at the top. (this is def washers replaced in the wrong order)
other than that just make sure there is no water, sand etc like you said.
hope it goes well
MattMiller
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Date Joined: 15/06/09
Get a copy
of the reel schematics and double check you have the drag stack in exactly the correct order.
Also agree that less is more when it comes to grease. Light smear then wipe 90% off.
Cowboy
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Date Joined: 27/02/15
Schematic here.
http://store.scottsbt.com/PennParts/PennSSV7500.aspx
MattMiller
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Might find
this an interesting read too - http://www.alanhawk.com/reviews/spf.html
tomtom
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Date Joined: 02/05/15
Very good read. Seems fair
Very good read. Seems fair to be honest and still don't think it's a bad reel for the money. May be some quality issues though that could prove more problems for some than others.
After reading that I know realise there is a brake mechanism that needs maintenace. I did not dismantle that and its possible that is the problem.
What is the brake meant to do? From reading that I am guessing that when you flick the bail arm over the brake is engaged so you don't need to tighten down drag to cast? Mine has never done that, always had to tighten drag right down. I have been using it mainly to cast out whole mullets though so may be overdoing it a bit.
tomtom
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Date Joined: 02/05/15
Thanks for all your help
Thanks for all your help guys! Its possible I put the washers in the wrong way but pretty sure I had it spot on. Definitely used a small amount of grease. Put less in than came out I reckon. Dropped it into the local tackle shop today as Im off to quobba in 10 days so haven't got the time to mess about unfortunately. The guy in there reckons the washers might have had a few too many Ray runs and they may need replacing...