It first started with my 5000FA and now I'm starting to see it occur with my 8000's. It is an inconsistant problem that gets worse over time. What happens in the beginning is that the atireverse will occationally not engage but, after you start reeling forward a few times it will start to work again. It started happening every once in a while and then, as with most things, the problem worsened over time. I took the reel apart several times including the anti-reverse assembly, cleaned, regreased and reassembled. It didn't seem to help the issue. Has anyone else encounterd this problem with these otherwise reliable reels? Found any fixes outside of replacing the anti reverse assembly? It seems to me that after a signifigant amount of use the tolerances between the roller bearings and palstic jam
ring may open up and loosen to the point where the bearings no longer bind consistantly. I hope I'm wrong though.