Hey...........

My shimano reels do the SAME thing...........antireverse jacks up, and sometimes has real problems in the cold...........

This is easy to fix, and you can probably do it yourself, if you are handy and feel comfortable taking the reel apart........Now, I'm doing this from memory, so some steps might be missing.......

The anti-reverse bearing is a one-way rod type bearing in a housing on the HANDLE side of the reel.

Take the handle cover off, and the locking mechanism, and then the handle. Make sure you take these off in order, and lay the parts out.

After the handle, there is another nut, and a couple washers, these washers are a little gritty. Make sure you take notice to the way they are formed, as I think it is important they go back on the reel the same way they came off.

After this stuff, you can see the rod bearing and the casing I'm talking about.......Remove the handle side faceplate, and then you can "push" this bearing out of the faceplate. Use some GOOD solvent, white gas, brake cleaner, etc, etc, to clean the gunk off this bearing, and then apply a couple drops of oil, and put it back in the reel.

while you're at it, remove ALL the sealed bearings you can see, clean them with brake cleaner, add a drop of oil, and put back in the reel.

This will take you about 20 minutes per reel..........I've been doing this myself for YEARS, and it saves be 20$ per reel. when you add that up for each reel, it saves me about 200 bucks/year in maintenance costs...........

Now, if you NOT sure about doing this yourself, you can definitely JACK up your equipment, but the job is not too hard, and pretty much anyone with a small set of screwdrivers, a couple wrenches, and some time can do it.

BTW.........the same thing happens with their spinning reels, and you can use the same method to fix those..........

Later,

Geo