The best way to make sure your worm and pawl last longer is to oil more often. And by the way its not your pawl that has gone out it is both your worm and pawl, so you should replace both. When you pull your worm out look at the grove that are on it they all should be pointed, but when the worm goes out one the points will have a notch in it at the end of the point. I have been using a abu garcia torno 3004hsi since 2001 and I only replaced the worm and pawl once.