Question about new ABEC-5 bearings - Page 2

**Shocker** · #11 11-03-2009, 06:54 PM

I got them at Academy in Houston. I put them in a friends reel a few weeks ago but he has not used them yet, then 2 weeks ago mine started to make noise, cleaned the reels up and still made the noise. Still casted great but the noise was too much so I'm going put these in and hope thats what it was.
They are smooth and spin about twice as long as the ones that came in the Curado. I think they will still be a great modification.

**Bantam1** · #12 11-04-2009, 09:01 AM

Well the bearings are not ABEC 5. They are ARB bearings that were packaged with the wrong header card. They are great bearings for sure.

**fishingcacher** · #13 11-04-2009, 11:17 PM

I bought the same ones at Academy last week.

**jboogerfinger** · #14 11-04-2009, 11:36 PM

The noise may be coming from the VBS breaks gliding against the drum. Rub a light coat of oil around the drum. One of my curados does that too. (no matter what bearings i put in it.) Casts fine though.