Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by Strewth » Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:51 am

Just replaced my new but buzzing 13 Met 6.2 aluminium drive gear with a new brass drive gear from the Curado K, keeping the new original 13 Met pinion gear. Wow! No time on the water with it, but now as smooth as my Conquest 100HG. Noticed that the Curado drive gear is thinner than the original 13 Met drive gear. I wonder whether this makes it track smoother on the pinion? A terrific upgrade, the reel is now super fluid to crank with absolutely zero vibration.

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by PikeRoadBassn » Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:19 am

BRONZEBACK32 wrote:
PikeRoadBassn wrote:@BRONZEBACK32

The MGL does not have a metal pawl.
I'm confused on what part is not metal....
The Levelwind pawl in the MGL looks to be ceramic

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by Bantam1 » Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:17 am

The pawl is actually plastic, not ceramic.

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by PikeRoadBassn » Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:07 am

Bantam1 wrote:The pawl is actually plastic, not ceramic.
Thank you for that clarification Bantam1

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by LgMouthGambler » Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:52 am

Bantam1 wrote:The pawl is actually plastic, not ceramic.
Been telling people this for some time. One guy on another forum in particular. Thinks he knows all about Shimanos because he works in a reel repair sweat shop. :lol:
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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by BRONZEBACK32 » Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:21 pm

I still don't know what part it is on the schematics ](*,)

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by Bantam1 » Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:43 pm

The pawl parts numbers:

BNT5383 for Curado 200K models

BNT5115 For Metanium MGL and Chronarch MGL

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by pharmboy2010 » Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:55 pm

Any reason these wouldn't work in a '15 Metanium DC?

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by Bantam1 » Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:59 am

Someone posted that the one from the Curado K works. I haven't tried it nor have I found a reason to change it.

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Re: Rumor? Curado K/Met. Drive gear Swap?

Post by pharmboy2010 » Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:15 pm

Well, I have 4 gear sets currently ordered! 2 for Met MGLs, 1 for a '15 Met DC and 1 of the Curado 70 5.5s to go into a Scorpion 70. Big thanks to TTT for putting together all these different gear set swaps, click drag conversions, etc. for us!

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