I agree, the whole thing is a POS. The one and only time I flipped was after the car came off. I had dropped the car all the way down in a major puff. With no traveler car, I pulled the traveler control line all the way in to "center line". Next puff, guess what? If you do clean the old system, at least put a stopper knot in the traveler so it can't come out the starboard end.