Okuma Magda Pro Maintenance

I rebuilt my Penn Senators earlier today and saw my Okuma Magda Pro 15's sitting in my office and thought...why not? I snapped some photos in the process to assist others who want to perform their own reel maintenance as I haven't found much online when it comes to this particular series of reels. Th first thing I noticed when I started tearing into them is how similar they are to the older Cabela's Depthmaster reels. Okuma probably made these reels for Cabela's under contract.

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Start off by backing out the four screws on the left sideplate.
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A cleanup and dab of grease on the transmission gear.
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To get the bearing out of the left sideplate you need a suitable tool. This works perfectly.
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Slip the bent end of the paper clip under the bearing and pull up.
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Pull out the bearing
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Next take a SHARP hook and remove the retaining ring and shield from each side.
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As is the case with most reels shipped from the factory these bearings barely had any grease at all.
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Using a can of brake cleaner, clean out the factory grease and hen gry the internals with a canned of compressed air used for dusting computers. Then pack the bearing with marine grease and replace back into the left side plate. I prefer to keep my bearings open unless they're going to be in the dirt or sand. Then reattach the left side plate to the frame after shooting a dab of grease into each screw hole.

On to the right sideplate. Remove theretaining screw on the handle and plastic handle cap. With a wrench, loosen the handle nut. Remove the handle, drag washer and star drag and set them aside in the same orentation you removed them.
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The right bearing is now visible and should fall out with a gentle tap of the hand on the reel body.
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Just like the left side, remove the retaining rings and shields, clean out the old grease with brake cleaner and dry with compressed air, then repack the bearing with marine grease. The bearing slides right back into the sideplate against the brass bearing spacer.
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The above can be done with the right sideplate attached or removed, it doesn't matter. Next clean out the spool tension cap with a cotton swab and add a small dab of grease. After removing the four screws holding on the right sideplate the spool spindle is exposed. Wipe clean and lightly coat with grease.
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I chose not to remove the eccentric lever because the gears looked clean and lightly lubricated. I ran out of Cal's drag grease so I did not remove the drag stack, though I am sure they are dry and would benefit from a coat of Cal's, Shimano or Penn drag grease. The levelwind worm gear ans sleeve can be reomved at this point and cleaned but mine were surprisingly shiny and not much grit in them. A single drop of oil on the worm gear is all I added.

Grease all four screw holes and reattach the right sideplate taking care to place the much longer of the four screws in the hole closest to the line counter display-it's obvious where it goes. Then take care not to round off the bridge by crossthreading the drag star back onto the threaded bridge.
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Next the eared drag washer with the ears facing the handle, the handle and the handle nut. Snug up the handle nut with a wrench and top it off with the reel nut cap and retaining screw.

I realize this is not a comprehensive reel rebuild but these are backup reels to my Daiwa Sealine line counters and were not in that bad of shape. I decided to snap some photos because I havent seen hardly anything on maintenance of these reels on the net and know that many members here use them for pulling crankbaits. If you have any questions, just ask ad I'll try to help out as much as I can.

Adam

This is one great post. Going to be very helpful to a lot of folks.

THanks for this detailed info and the pics....fantastic!