Smooth drag! They have a kit to change out the drag for a 3 stack setup, it works great.

WOW, great eye! I did wonder why that drag washer was keyed. I'll call daiwa tomorrow and order a proper collar.

Orientation of the gear shaft collar didn't affect the seating depth on the driveshaft. The bearing seats nice and flush without the last metal drag washer installed. ](*,) The drive gear doesn't key into anything under it. The bottom side of the drive gear just has a hard red orange spacer. I think...

I'll check the orientation of the gear shaft collar, I think I tried it both ways. The bearing I ordered from daiwa, unless they grabbed the wrong one it should be correct. It's really not seating more than a mm or 2. The inner race of the bearing is hitting the drive shaft collar. Is the collar sup...

Hi, Picked up a used tdx100hsd off of ebay pretty cheap. The reel has a 103hsd spool on it, its ported and looks nothing like a deep v spool 100hsd. A bunch of parts were missing below the handle, parts 78-81, 83 and 85 from the schematic. http://www.daiwaweb.com/us/service/manuals/image/baitcasting...

I'm new to the BFS game, I'm surprised to see you're getting equal distance out of casting and spinning gear at 1/16th oz. I did back to back casting of a bare 1/8th oz jig head and got 35-40 paces with spinning gear and could only muster 20-25 paces with my casting gear. I definitely need to work o...