Thread: WTB 706 mods for a 704...;-)

Since I don't listen very well I had already purchased a 704z & after getting the heads up about the issues they have. I want to buy a cup,spool and a bailess setup for a 706. Any Help is greatly appreciated.

Hmm. I have a green 704 that I converted to a manual. I didnt change anything else and I havent had a problem with it in years.

You can buy a manual pickup for it for pretty cheap. J & M might even have them. That might be where I got mine, but I cant remember.

yep,,you don't listen very well, not going to find one here for sell. really doubt anybody has one here as a spare except maybe john and o'yea me.. ;D might find them from time to time on fleabay but the price will be close to a complete reel..get in touch with terry at j & m,,he may part with one but not cheap cause they are purdy.. or convert your 704 with a kit that is junk... the penn conversion kits were bad and the knock offs are really bad...

You'd be better off putting a manual on your 704 and be done with it. Like Steve said, by the time you pay for the parts you need to convert it you'd be better off just buying a 706.

And like I said,spend a couple hundred on a 706 and keep the 704 for parts.

Yeah I had already gotten it before we had our chat guys! ;-) I think a new 850with a manual will suit me fine...

An 850 with a manual is worthless,the reel must be a rotor cup style instead of a skirted spool in order to function properly.Sorry man.......The bottom line is this,either suck it up and buy a 706 for a couple hundred bucks or spend money trying to convert a reel and not be happy,then spend the money for the 706 you wanted in the first place and have several hundred invested in the end.I sell fishing tackle for a living and I've looked people in the eye a thousands of times and asked"do you want to buy once and be happy or do you want to buy twice because you weren't".

[quote author=john g link=topic=847.msg8034#msg8034 date=1333071742]
An 850 with a manual is worthless,the reel must be a rotor cup style instead of a skirted spool in order to function properly[/quote]
Why is that John? I don't see where a cupped rotor or skirted spool makes any difference. It really doesn't matter anyways the conversion kits for the Penn SS series isn't available anymore.

Well in that case I wil just stick with the bail systems I use now. I appreciate the heads up John.

I don't if know if it's the length of the reel or the length of the spool but every manual conversion I've tried on a large skirted spool reel was almost impossible to use unless you had 5 inch fingers.