10/22 stove piping, volquartsen installed

Donjek

Donjek

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I've owned a 10/22 for a few years now and it still stove pipes on the regular. Lately I've been trying to fix the problem and installed a Volquartsen extractor, polished the bolt+trigger, cleaned the mags and chamfered the bolt.I also gave it a 100% clean. Also have tried firing high velocity rounds.

It still stovepipes!

Below is a pic of a gap between the casing and extractor... Could this be the problem? Maybe with the bolt or the plunger?

Any other ideas?

Thanks :)

Bonus points: I understand older 10/22s have flush mag releases, can anyone post a pic of a close up of one? I'm considering modifying a stock one on for hunting!

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It sure looks like that extractor isn't installed properly or there is something wrong with the bolt itself. When you installed the new extractor did you really clean out the groove? I blast mine with brake cleaner, a pick and compressed air. Grit and crap builds up in there pretty solidly and takes a little work to remove. Since it has been doing this all along did you get all the packing grease out of it in the first place? In most of the 10/22's I've troubleshot over the years that groove has not been cleaned properly.
 
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Extractor is definitely screwy, they can be a little tricky to seat in the groove, and debris can get in the groove as mentioned above.

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Jimminy Crickets that extractor is grabbing way high!

im almost tempted to go get one of my 10/22's out and do some measuring for ya so you can compare it to yours.
but its 3am and the wife may wake and ask me what the hell im doing.

if no one else has by tomorrow ill do some measuring for ya to compare yours too.
 
Well, I gave it a good clean again and it still sits way high, it almost looks like the hole isnt perpendicular with the length of the bolt, is that normal? I just did an order with brownells and I dont really want to buy a bolt on its own..

I'm thinking about taking the stock extractor and heating it up and bending it down. Thoughts?

Awesome feedback and pics guys! I'll get this thing workin!

EDIT: stock extractor exact same size as the volquartsen, tried both original and volt springs and both extractors are proud. I didnt test fire all variations though
 
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Where abouts do you live? I have a spare bolt, it's polished and chamfered, that works fine. If you are willing to pay shipping both ways I would do a trade. If you are close by you could come over and we'd get it working for you one way or the other. I really think you just have it installed incorrectly, they are really fiddly to install, but I can't get mine to install the way yours is but I will keep trying.
 
Isn't stovepipe normally due to the magazine not fitting properly? Are you using stock mags ?
Try removing the extractor and shooting it with out it, (Yes it will work) but you will not be able to manually extract a round. If it still stoves I would look at the mags.
 
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Where abouts do you live? I have a spare bolt, it's polished and chamfered, that works fine. If you are willing to pay shipping both ways I would do a trade. If you are close by you could come over and we'd get it working for you one way or the other. I really think you just have it installed incorrectly, they are really fiddly to install, but I can't get mine to install the way yours is but I will keep trying.
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Whitehorse, YT

Any tips on installing it? I've watched a youtube video where he pointed out a couple mistakes and I'm fairly certain I avoided them..

Thanks for the invite! I might take you up on it if nothing pans out!
 
Donjek said:
Whitehorse, YT

Any tips on installing it? I've watched a youtube video where he pointed out a couple mistakes and I'm fairly certain I avoided them..

Thanks for the invite! I might take you up on it if nothing pans out!
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No tips for installing them but here's a measurement for you to compare yours with and a couple of pics of the face to show the extractor grooves location.




 
I put a rare earth magnet on the face and measured from that to the hole. I guessed a .025" gap when I saw your pic in the original post, I was only only .005" out. I would say bad bolt. I would contact Ruger direct, dealing with Locations Snapshot (Ruger's Canadian warranty depot) is a pita most of the time. Send them a link to this thread after you post a pic similar to this one and see what they say.
 
Well. live and learn, a tale of 2 bolts:) I took a bolt out of another gun just to compare the 2 and found some interesting discrepancies but one very important similarity.
The 2 together, note the totally different machining. I'll call the top one bolt 1

Bolt 1, 2 measurements using the magnet


Bolt 2, same measurements



So I guess the .340 is the important measurement. What's yours at that point?
 
Busy today! I'll post pics tomorrow. I'm thinking the length from the hole to the face that the round sits on will be most important, hard to get though!

Going to try to heat up and hammer the original extractor tomorrow I think
 
Measure from the bolt face to where the cartridge sits. Mine are within .002" of each other .046 and .048. Then compare to where your hole is at like my measurements above.
 
my bolt
.040 from the cartridge face
0.304 from the hole to front face
=0.264 from hole to cartridge face

your bolts
0.340 - 0.038 = 0.302

yours 0.302 - mine 0.264 = 0.038" = 0.9652mm

dang close to a millimeter, that would do it!

Thanks for your help elimsprint you are a champ! I'll shoot ruger an email and we will see what they say!

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