JiggyTimmy

Gotcha boss. Is that the small circular piece wrapped around the drive shaft that’s next kinda halfway under the side plate and half outside? Also how would I go about getting that guy out?

I’m new to doing maintenance on baitcasters and went to rip apart my lexa 400pwr-p because it was feeling a little rough and got stuck on the handle side plate. First I removed everything from the drive shaft and the 4 screws on the plate. It should have just popped right off at this point right? Well no. From the small sliver I can see inside when I try to pull the plate off, it looks like the main gear is moving as I pull or something is holding it back. So I went to the other side and removed that plate, the c clamp that holds the worm gear shaft just to see if that was it, and now I’m in a deeper hole. Can’t get the white piece connected to the gold gear back inside the black frame and still can’t get the "not allowed" side plate off the handle side so I can’t even get in there to fix it. But the worm gear is definitley too far toward the handle side and I can’t get it back out the other way to get the c clamp back on the end of it. Anyone else have trouble with a stuck side plate? I’m positive there are no more screws, and tension knob is backed off. Also drive shaft isn’t moving at all currently. Thanks guys IMG_5064.mov