I bought my wife a Stradic 2000 spinning reel last summer to go on a GL3 1143S. She hated it because it was hard to click the bail closed after a cast. So I put my Stradic on her rod for the rest of the summer.
It soon became smooth, just like the rest on our Stradics'. I think it was loaded with too much factory grease. It works like a champ now.