St. Criox Mojo problems

[JohnnySaxatilis]

yeap exactly whats goin on with mine toaster.

Honestly I'd rather just have someone local here fix the lower blank and make it the way I want it, than hassle with the company. (Lowering of the seat, replacing the cork tape, and shrink etc) Ive also worn through part of the shrink wrap grip to the blank from rubbing up against my canal bike riding a fish back to the car.... its in rough shape. You can even see where the plier marks are on the reel seat thread from trying to get it off.

I wonder which would be cheaper though? trying to get a custom replacement from st criox? or goin through a rod builder?

[toaster816]

Originally Posted by JohnnySaxatilis

yeap exactly whats goin on with mine toaster.

Honestly I'd rather just have someone local here fix the lower blank and make it the way I want it, than hassle with the company. (Lowering of the seat, replacing the cork tape, and shrink etc) Ive also worn through part of the shrink wrap grip to the blank from rubbing up against my canal bike riding a fish back to the car.... its in rough shape. You can even see where the plier marks are on the reel seat thread from trying to get it off.

I wonder which would be cheaper though? trying to get a custom replacement from st criox? or goin through a rod builder?

They must be the same reel seats then. I don't think st. croix would custom anything, just send you another factory mojo. You can strip the grip yourself to bare blank, I believe the reel seats are just glued or epoxied on, maybe a heat gun could coax it off? I would prefer no reel seat at all and just tape the bastard on. I'm sure it would be a quick remedy from a professional builder, can't imagine it costing you too much.

[numbskull]

You can cut a reel seat off with a hacksaw. Cut diagonally and spiral around the seat, then pry it off. Once off, use a heat gun to soften the epoxy and arbors and cut/scrape them off. Another seat will cost you about 10 bucks, cork tape a few bucks, xflock shrink wrap about $17 bucks. The new seat will need to fit over the butt of the rod. Build arbors with masking tape, fill the gaps with epoxy and slide the new seat on. It is not hard to do, but will cost you one or two hour's labor if you can't do it yourself. Before you try this you might want to see if you can enlarge the offending original hood with a dremel tool.

Alternatively, you may do better to send it back to St Croix, get a new rod, sell it, then have a custom built the way you want it.

[Mike P]

Given how frequently the reel seats come loose on the Mojo rods, you may not even have to cut it. You might be able to get the old seat off with heat. They may use 5 minute epoxy to mount them. Worth a shot before you take a hacksaw or Dremel to it.

You may have to replace the shrink wrap foregrip, too.

[JohnnySaxatilis]

thanks for the input everyone, i'll look into widening of the hood with the dremmel. might be a delicate thing (that sounds dirty)

I untimately want the thing customized cuz its beat to shiz. the whole shrink wrap on the lower blank is guna have to get replaced reguardless, due to shifting the seat local, (its way too high for me) and huge hole . any local rod builders around here known?

[zimmy]

st croix has had the same problem w/ reel seats for 20 years, at least. You's think they would get on that problem.