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Well I can't tell you about the conventionals but I have a Penn 6500SS and I just dipped into cleaning it.
It was all very easy. Nothing too complicated. Just pay attention to how the reel works and put it back together the same way. Basically you have that big gear in the middle. When you turn that, the extension turns the gear laying against the side of the reel. There is a metal piece that sits on top of that. The main shaft sits in that metal piece and makes the spool move up and down.
If you go back ot that big main gear, that sits in the gear that the main shaft slides through. That's what makes the bail turn around.
That's the basic setup of the reel. Of course there is still the anti-reverse function and the clicker. To clean it, I set up two dishes. One with hot soap and water, one with just hot water. All the pieces got a good soaking and then cleaned off. A good thing to use are toothpicks and cotton swabs. Then I dried the pieces off and gave them all a good coating of oil. I used Penn Lube. Then I threw it all back together.
One thing to watch though. When you open up the case, look on the left side. There is a seal washer. I never knew about it. So then I popped it out when I was putting the bearing back in. It's only a felt washer but it helps keeping the saltwater and sand out. Mine was ripped so I ordered a new one. It's only like a dollar or so.
My reel now works better than ever. Even when I first bought it.
Oh, this is for the 6500SS. I tried this on one of my 4000 somethings. Maybe it's a 4300SS I'm not sure. Anyways, you have to pulle the whole anti-reverse off to get at the the main gear. It was a total pain. The smaller reels work the same way as the larger ones, it's just you have less space to work.
Enjoy it,
Patrick
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