abu 7000i handle turns the wrong direction with fish on

[East Tide]

Not to disagree with Stewie but I have had poor results with trying to strip the grease out of the IAR's on my 6500's (never done it on my 7000's with them) and they always seemed noisy/crunchy after that... the Dog will work well, if it's clean.

[Stewie]

You can disagree with me, if I was always right, I'd hate myself.

I did the brakleen deal on my Saltist and it worked again. The IAR bearing isn't really open unless you take it apart, which I didn't do. Haven't taken apart my 7000iHSN yet(don't use it much). Didn't even know that it had a dog and pony anti reverse. On my 7000C3, I always put a dab of grease on the ratchet gear to assure that the dog would swing in and engage if the reel tried to go backward. Funny, the
C3 anti reverse never failed.


....and with my procedure, at least he gets to have a beer with Scott.

[East Tide]

Originally Posted by Stewie

On my 7000C3, I always put a dab of grease on the ratchet gear to assure that the dog would swing in and engage if the reel tried to go backward. Funny, the
C3 anti reverse never failed.


....and with my procedure, at least he gets to have a beer with Scott.

I know! My old 7000's i could grease the #^&#^&#^&#^&e out of and they worked fine! I bought one of the Chinese iHSN's (FWIW, this is my favorite Abu ever, just had growing pains) and this happened to me and after a lot of jacking around I realized a) it was supposed to be a dual anti reverse and neither worked??? and b) if the dog and pony reverse wasn't almost completely clean, it would kinda sorta catch, but didn't at the worst possible times!

Beer drinking is a good excuse to fix #^&#^&#^&#^&e though, so carry on. You might want to use a torch though- beer drinking and torches add to the fun.