[frugalfisherman]

I binged "problem penn drag star loosens" and came up with this. The guy who had the problem said this fixed it. Do a Google or Bing there's more stuff. Just trying to make up for my screw up.


It happens only when the drags are put in the wrong order. Specifically, the eared washer is on top. When that's the case, it spins directly with the main gear, which goes backwards when you pull line off the reel. So, then the spacing sleeve goes backwards, which makes the star go backwards. Voila! No drag!
The metal washers should go keyed-eared-keyed. There's a belleville washer on top of the drag stack, then the spacing sleeve, and the star screws down on top of the spacing sleeve.
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