30 minutes ago, LCG said:

No, the yoke has the silver metal piece showing in the center near the pinion gear. The yoke and pinion gear were put together and slide into the pinion bearing in the frame. Then the springs put on the posts, on top of the yoke.

 

The yoke is black, as are the surrounding parts so it's hard to make out, but it has a silver piece in the center.

Good deal. It was hard to see in the pic. That's a strange noise, hope you get 'er figured out. 

This ever get resolved??

59 minutes ago, MiceNReets said:

This ever get resolved??

Not yet, tore it down and back up a few more times. Going to try one more thing and then looking to have it sent out for repair.

1 hour ago, LCG said:

Not yet, tore it down and back up a few more times. Going to try one more thing and then looking to have it sent out for repair.

Call or email me if I can help 

3 minutes ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

Call or email me if I can help 

That's really awesome !!!!

1 hour ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

Call or email me if I can help 

If I can't get it fixed after one more try, it will probably be headed your way. I want a trusted professional to fix it if I messed it up. Hopefully I will learn a lesson here

So I took one more look at the reel, went to the spool this time. I noticed a slight dent in the rim of the spool. Pictures don't show it, but I can feel it, it's slight but it's there. I must have mishandled the spool at some point.

 

@Delaware Valley Tackle would this cause this type of noise? My thinking is the spool isn't locking into the pinion under drag because of the small bend in the rim of the spool, causing the spool to not properly fit against the reel.

On 2/20/2023 at 5:08 PM, MiceNReets said:

This ever get resolved??

You and me both. I have no idea why I need to know how this turns out, but I do.

1 minute ago, txchaser said:

You and me both. I have no idea why I need to know how this turns out, but I do.

Spoiler alert...it probably ends in me being an idiot. I am man enough to admit my own faults ?

16 minutes ago, LCG said:

Spoiler alert...it probably ends in me being an idiot. I am man enough to admit my own faults ?

Happens to the best of us brother.    I hope you find a good solution.  

10 hours ago, LCG said:

So I took one more look at the reel, went to the spool this time. I noticed a slight dent in the rim of the spool. Pictures don't show it, but I can feel it, it's slight but it's there. I must have mishandled the spool at some point.

 

@Delaware Valley Tackle would this cause this type of noise? My thinking is the spool isn't locking into the pinion under drag because of the small bend in the rim of the spool, causing the spool to not properly fit against the reel.

Typically a dented spool will have a detrimental affect on casting if it’s bad. Free spool suffers and you can feel it. It wouldn’t affect pinion engagement 

Just now, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

Typically a dented spool will have a detrimental affect on casting if it’s bad. Free spool suffers and you can feel it. It wouldn’t affect pinion engagement. Depending where and severity of the dent it may not affect performance at all. 

I wanted to post an update in case this happens to anyone else. I put the reel away for awhile. I decided to order new parts for the reel from plat Japan. Specifically a new main and pinion gear, yoke, springs, and a new spool pin.

 

The parts came in a few days ago and I swapped them out today. Problem solved. Which exact part was the culprit, I am not entirely sure. But I didn't want to have to reorder any parts due to shipping and duty fees. 

 

I also wanted to thank all members who chimed in and especially @Delaware Valley Tacklefor his advice and offer to help. This problem became personal, I probably damaged the reel and I was hell bent on learning from my mistake.

 

Thanks everyone and hopefully this helps someone in the future.

Glad to hear problem resolved and it’s working back to normal.   ?? 

Glad you worked it out

I don’t know about you, but that reel needs to check its’ pants!