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For a Jazz or Precision style bass to suffer neck dive, either the machineheads must be massive, sealed gear Grover types or the body must be extremely light - to the point that you have to wonder what wood it is made from.
The last time that I experienced anything similar was on a Yamaha Attitude Plus. The Attitude variants with a machined from solid bridge do not suffer from neck dive. This is one reason why I recommend replacing the "vintage" stamped steel bridge of the Attitude Plus and cheaper RBX basses with a Gotoh 201B high mass bridge.
If the tuners are big plate ones swap them for Hipshot Ultralites.
On some basses they can save almost half a pound, and when that saving is at the end of the long lever the difference in balance is remarkable.
They aren’t cheap though. So if the bass isn’t a keeper then it might not be worth it.
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