SKS Troubleshooting

bigmoe

bigmoe

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In July I received my Chinese SKS, I love it and even with the following issue, I still love it. The SKS shoots great, very little recoil and Using only front and rear sights, I had good groupings. This issue I have is as follows, I will explain the mod's I did first.

Over the last month and a half, I have added a return spring to the firing pin (Kelly's Gunsmithing, great product) and installed a ATI Strikeforce stock. All this was easily accheived, the only trouble encountered was when I removed the gas tube to remove the wood stock and install the composite stock. I was finding it hard to push the lever back in place that holds the gas tube in place (Succeeded after gently tapping on top and pushing on lever at the same time. The problem I am having, is after I have fired 4 or five rounds, the lever pops up and I have to use the above procedure to re seat the lever. Is anyone else encountering this and if so what can be done to remedy this. I am for the short term going to lockwire the lever in place using .25 inconnel lock wire and attach it to the accessory lugs included in the stock kit.

If anyone has any information or better idea's Please respond to my thread.

Bigmoe
 
I encountered the same issue and it maybe one of stock assembly. I found if I removed the trigger assembly, magazine and then lifted the rifle out of the stock a little I was able to install the top gas tube gaurd and lock easily. Then push the rifle back into the stock, install the magazine and trigger assembly. There seems to be a small arch in the stock that puts pressure on the upper gaurd. Just my two cents - hope it helps.

GunFan2101
 
Thanks Hamerd and Gunfan,

I think this is helpful. and yes I had the lever down to where the lever indents were aligned with the notches. I will push the lever down all the way it will go and see if that helps. Carry my lockwire just in case,:redface:
 
This is not SKS troubleshooting, this is Babba troubleshooting. The SKS worked fine until you molested it.
 
Gillen & Fiddler, never fired it with the wood stock on, as I wanted to get the new firing pin with return spring installed first, as far as I know the same thing might have happened even then as I did not change any of those components, just installed the cosmetic upgrades. new firing pin works great, you do not have to like the new stocks but negative comments should be kept to yourself. My FN C1 and my C7 never had such problems and, my god, the C7 has a composite stock to. Military wouldn't have gone to them if they thought there were issues.
 
I had the same thing, but it did it with the wood stock as well as the tapco with the wood hand grip still on it. I am guessing during the refurb they had some mis matched parts and you can see where they filed the ramp down a bit so the lever would pass over and hold down the gas tube, but man you needed to squeeze the thing in a vice to hold it down far enough, so i filed a bit off the under side of the wood hand grip, which is what was holding it up, and a bit extra on the ramp on top and now it fits in alot easier
 
I have a Russian SKS with all that tapco crap on it,
It works flawlessly but now I wish I hadn't done anything to it, it looked great without any 'upgrades'.
 
Oh yeah, you need to have one bare bones stock, and then one tacticool, sometimes another one just to be sure
 
The guy posts something and has a comment and question. Why did he change his SKS? Because he wanted to. Why do you own what you own? Because you want to? Stfu
 
1) Ensure it is in this position when locked, If not it wont hold.
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2) As others mentioned check the clearance between handguard and stock, if it a tight fit, shave some handguard off (sandpaper or file.)

3) Try closing the lever without gas tube in place, if it still hard to push down, then the plunger and spring are not properly placed.

4) Check if by forcing the lever you bent it, if it is bent then there will be less force holding it in the locked position indent.

I figure it is a combination of 1&2 but it's always a good idea to check everything in the area of the problem regardless of unlikely-ness, especially if all it costs is a couple mins of your time.
 
Grain said:
Don't listen to someone who say's "Don't buy Chinese".
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Yeah!! we need to look arround us to see that everything we are buying is chinese. Some of the European and US manaufacturers are also producing in China and stamping their name on it.

Buying Chinese may not be the best for our manufacturing sector but our trade sector and service jobs is doing well.

BUY CHINESE it is better for your pocket and you have a lot more money for rounds to have fun.:ar15::ar15:
:shotgun::shotgun::shotgun::shotgun::shotgun::shotgun::shotgun::shotgun:
 
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