Reel Repair by Alan Tani

James, the second sticky ABU Nomenclature, by Bryan Young is helpful with all the different letters.

The bashing wears out. You need to replace the side plate as the bushing does not remove. They are not that expensive from shimano.

Todf

Any way to correct a bit of play in the reel handle that is not related to the handle attachment being loose. It seems to be  from the bushing ( not sure of pt#) in the side plate (165) ? Appreciate any advice.

Saw this in one of my fly fishing mags,

enjoy!!!!!





Wayne

um, hey, so just out of curiosity, what's wrong with the reel? is it the gears?

Looking at the picture of the spool, I'd say the drag adjusting shims are stacked too high!!! There should never be more than three adjusting shims on the left side of the spool. Yours is getting pushed too far to the right from the start. Somebody stacked them that way because of a free-spool issue. Ask me how I know!!!!! On the Valiants, sometimes you have to put a bearing spacer on the backside of the spool shaft against the E-clip. This is to push the drag plate off of the plastic drag plate cover after you have assembled the spool. There are a few different size shims: .010, .015, .020, .025  You just have to play with them until you get it right. That's why it's so hard for the average layman to service their own Accurate reels. There's a shim for everything in different sizes that may need to be stacked in different sizes. Hope this helps!!!!

Petah

I did it to my 665H. It costs about $300.00
It's a totally new sideplate with the big AR bearing, gear sleeves, gears, handle, bearings
I love my new 600 Boss Magnum Extreme 2 speed!!!!
I use it for night-time speed jigging for these blue-fin tuna out here in California with 100lb color metered
spectra, 600' to 100lb mono, 50' to a 3' 200lb bite leader on a Calstar 770XH
I feel sorry for the fish when I hook 'em!!!! Because I fish really tight drags from the git go!!!

Petah

Susie,
      Take the pre-set assembly out, use a #6 or 8 allen wrench or socket where the side-plate hex would go and use some pliers with a rag on the knob and turn clockwise like your adjusting the drag. The knob is stuck from either over-tightening (Actually over-loosening) the pre-set knob. Trick I learned at Accurate while I was servicing reels there!!! Hope this helps!!!

Petah

Cerakote is not for the faint of heart.  You need extensive preparation, really good spray equipment and a place to bake it.  Maybe practice on something more disposable than a Tiagra.

If a big fish is taking off for the horizon, raise the rod, go into gear and let the fish pull the rod down. Don't go into gear with the rod tip pointing at the fish, it puts too much pressure on the reel.