dixie_boysles
Well-known member
SO I went fishing in the cold rain Saturday and i had gloves on. I looked down at my reel at one point and it had fuzz all over.in it. then i heard it making a winding noise. I was VERY unhappy as it was my Abu Garcia Revo S (my favorite reel). I am about three years into bass fishing and I have always been afraid to take apart a reel and clean it. I finally bit the bullet and done so that night because I could not bare the thought of my Revo making noises!
After inspecting it, there was fuzz everywhere and the noise was coming from the levelwind on the front of the reel. evidentally, the fuzz had soaked up any oil or grease lol. So i cleaned it real well. Then I took the spool out and the cover covering the gears. I inspected everything, the inards were pretty clean, just needed oiling and greasing. I greased the worm gear and oiled everything else. Only problem is, I hope I didnt overdue it. I mean i didnt pour the oil on and cake on the grease, but I did put more than one drop on things. Do you think I'll be ok? I used Berkely Reel oil and grease.
I am going to take them apert again in about 6 months and clean them up using simple green and start afresh with the grease and oil and use sparingly lol.
I ended up oiling all of my reels and relining them. One of my Pinnacle reel's anti reverse has halfway stopped working. After coiling it and all, it works fine now...weird!
I even went a step further and done all three of my spinning reels lol.
Being this was my first time and all, I learned alot and what to do next time I do this. No sooner than two hours after doing all this, I ran across this article in Bass Times:
https://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors...ps/news/story?page=BT_bonus_201103_clean_reel
This really helped. I dont know why I didnt google it first lol!
After inspecting it, there was fuzz everywhere and the noise was coming from the levelwind on the front of the reel. evidentally, the fuzz had soaked up any oil or grease lol. So i cleaned it real well. Then I took the spool out and the cover covering the gears. I inspected everything, the inards were pretty clean, just needed oiling and greasing. I greased the worm gear and oiled everything else. Only problem is, I hope I didnt overdue it. I mean i didnt pour the oil on and cake on the grease, but I did put more than one drop on things. Do you think I'll be ok? I used Berkely Reel oil and grease.
I am going to take them apert again in about 6 months and clean them up using simple green and start afresh with the grease and oil and use sparingly lol.
I ended up oiling all of my reels and relining them. One of my Pinnacle reel's anti reverse has halfway stopped working. After coiling it and all, it works fine now...weird!
I even went a step further and done all three of my spinning reels lol.
Being this was my first time and all, I learned alot and what to do next time I do this. No sooner than two hours after doing all this, I ran across this article in Bass Times:
https://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors...ps/news/story?page=BT_bonus_201103_clean_reel
This really helped. I dont know why I didnt google it first lol!