Can someone help me fix this clicking issue?  Is it just the AR bearing or something else?  I'm a novice at reel repair, can get them apart and back together but there is a chance something is put together wrong also. Video below explains the issue.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/AkH6tCWwMtGTLdue9

Difficult to tell but that sound is very similar to the sound a reel makes when you disengage the clutch while the handle is spinning. 

 

That does not sound like a bearing to me although I could be wrong.

 

Check the smaller pinion gear and the ramps it rides on would be my suggestion. Someone else may be more familiar with this issue. 

 

Come to think of it, check the springs too. I believe that if those arent seated properly it will make that noise also.

I’m no expert. But I see the spool is still turning but the handle is stationary. So something is amiss. 

7 minutes ago, BaitFinesse said:

Bad pinion yoke.  Time for a new gears.  Pinion and main are replaced as a set.

He said he took it apart recently, my money is still on poorly seated pinion springs, yoke, etc. 

The gears and ramp areas all look fine and not worn or chipped or broken.  The plastic part with the ramps will seat all the way down inside it's mating surfaces so to speak and the springs are on their pins.  Could the springs be too weak?

The main gear stack could also be off? I agree with BaitFinesse that this is likely related to how the gears are mating. 

 

Could be weak springs, could be gear stack, but something is keeping the gears from mating properly resulting in what BrianMDTX noticed where the spool keeps turning when the handle stops. 

 

Lets hope DVT chimes in on this one ... his is an answer you can trust

Thanks I appreciate all the input.  I may have made a mistake but my latest attempt I stretched the springs out a little and put a little grease on the ramp areas and it still will do it but takes a larger amount of inertia to create the click/spin.. I'd say more than double the force as when I started.   

There’s nothing wrong with the reel. That’s just not how they’re designed to work. By slapping the handle Luke that you’re making the spool pin skim across the bottom of the pinion. If it disengages and engages under normal use it’s fine. 

Perfect thanks.. I hit it after cleaning up and lubing and was like welp that doesn't seem normal.  And convinced myself I had something wrong.  Everything else works perfectly.  And that does too if it's not supposed too haha!

3 hours ago, T.Killian said:

Perfect thanks.. I hit it after cleaning up and lubing and was like welp that doesn't seem normal.  And convinced myself I had something wrong.  Everything else works perfectly.  And that does too if it's not supposed too haha!

I have had a reel make this noise after cleaning and it will function fine but check the anti-reverse paw.  When I took apart a old Chronarch, I made the mistake of not getting it aligned properly and the noise it made was exactly like yours.  I can't guarantee that's what it is but it is worth checking out.