I just acquired a used Pro Gear 541. Are there any mods or upgrades available for it?
Thanks
There are a number of upgrades you can do:
1. Stainless Steel Gear Sleeve (98-320AT from Penn Parts) (may require a new Penn 3-113H bridge, however)
2. Stainless Steel 4:1 gear and pinion (Pro Challenger)
3. Stainless Steel Dog (Smooth Drag)
4. 5+1 or 7+1 carbontex drag kits (Smooth Drag or Bryan Young)
5. Stainless Steel Yoke (the only source I know of is Ken's Custom Reel in Oceanside)
6. Tiburon or AT handle
Is there someone that I can send the reel to, to have those mods done?
See the following threads:
http://alantani.com/index.php?board=27.0
http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=277.0
Also, Ken's Custom Reel in Oceanside, California.
When you add the price of spectra, you can spend a lot of $$ upgrading your Pro Gears.
Hope that helps.
1. you can use the oem bridge with the SS gear sleeve.
2. The prochallenger gears are 4:1 not 5:1. You can also lower the gear ratio down to 3.25:1 with brass 113H gears and pinion or you can find steel or s/s 3.25 gear set on ebay.
3. I and socalangler both posted how to double-dogged the 541 on here.
4. The yoke can be found with Keta on here but I do not know if he has any left. If you are handy with the dremel or file, you can take a penn 500 S/S yoke and file the curvature to fit the oem.
5. The s/s dogs can be bought from keta or from bryan/alan.
6. Power Handle and arm can be bought from Alan or Ebay.
7. Or you can fish it as is until you need to upgrade. :-)
Thanks for the info. I've sent Alan an email, hoping to hear back from him soon. I'm on a 10 day in November, if anything starts to get interesting within range of the fleet, I may check it out. Otherwise I'm not in any big hurry. It's a cool reel, I was totally unfamiliar with them until now. I'd like to optimize it as far as it will go. I'm wondering why there's no clicker...
Quote from: GotMojo on July 08, 2014, 04:36:34 AM
Thanks for the info. I've sent Alan an email, hoping to hear back from him soon. I'm on a 10 day in November, if anything starts to get interesting within range of the fleet, I may check it out. Otherwise I'm not in any big hurry. It's a cool reel, I was totally unfamiliar with them until now. I'd like to optimize it as far as it will go. I'm wondering why there's no clicker...
Some have clickers, most don't. I think when they were made it was gear toward live bait boat fishing or jig throwing hence no clicker.