This will be my first full year using baitcasting reels. I purchased a less expensive model last year and it worked great but towards the end of the year it started making noise when reeling. I purchased a couple more reels this spring for the upcoming year and I was just wondering what maintenace I should be doing to the reels between trips to keep them in tip top condition. I purchased a couple of inexpensive Daiwas to start off the year. Do baitcasters need to be lubricated? Greased? If so, where do I do it on the reels? NOTE: I didnt receive any manuals with the new daiwa reels. I've searched the internet but cant find anything.
got this tackled today took about 3 hours to get both sides done. Didnt even get to use a torch....
Thought I was golden with just jacking it up and I could get to everything but no luck. Had to remove the entire axle hub and brake assembly to get to what I needed. Was a pain but still better then taking off the entire pivot arm.
Axle bearings were already greased and in great shape thankfully. Got both leaf springs installed and its ready for the road again.
Probably going to have my electric brakes checked, I am not touching anything with the brake drums. Based on what I saw it doesn't look like my electric brakes have been working anyway. Brakes are nice to have if its slippery out
😂 yea pretty amazing how b o o b i e s gets flagged, but they can't respond or tell me why I can't get logged in here on my laptop but I can on my cellular 😪
we had some nice weather yesterday and this conundrum was driving me crazy so I drove up to the house to take another look. I got a bunch of goodies via ups yesterday (cables, winch ratchet parts, handles, leaf springs etc).
I wanted to make sure the new leaf springs I got fit. I got everything laid out and ready to go. Will be busy this weekend with kids stuff and too cold to fish anyway, but I will try to get back up there again next weekend and get it done. I don't think it will be bad once I get it lifted up.
For anyone in the google verse, the leaf springs are 4 leafs and measure 25 1/4" eye to eye per Yetti. I didnt want to pay their markup so just got something else comparable rated for the same weight.
I am a first time wheel house owner, this is all new to me. My house didn't come with any handles for the rear cables? I was told this week by someone in the industry that cordless drills do not have enough brake to lower it slow enough and it can damage the cables and the ratchets in the winches. I put on a handle last night and it is 100% better than using a drill, unfortatenly I found out the hard way lol and will only use the ICNutz to raise the house now.
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This will be my first full year using baitcasting reels. I purchased a less expensive model last year and it worked great but towards the end of the year it started making noise when reeling. I purchased a couple more reels this spring for the upcoming year and I was just wondering what maintenace I should be doing to the reels between trips to keep them in tip top condition. I purchased a couple of inexpensive Daiwas to start off the year. Do baitcasters need to be lubricated? Greased? If so, where do I do it on the reels? NOTE: I didnt receive any manuals with the new daiwa reels. I've searched the internet but cant find anything.
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