Maverick Trouble

Joel

Joel

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Hey guys,

I sold a Maverick 88 to a CGN'er last week, and something weird is going on. It checked out okay before I shipped it, as I was able to work the action fine. It's got something wrong with it now though, as the buyer has told me (And shown me a pic) of it...The action only opens halfway and then it stops.

What could be jamming it up, internally? I really never saw this happen before, and I feel pretty bad to have sold someone a malfunctioning piece of kit. I would have stripped it and fixed it if I had known this would happen but it honestly worked fine when I tried it.

Can anyone help, or have any ideas?

Thanks!

Joel
 
Are you sure the new owner has not stripped it and then simply not put it back together wrong? If it worked fine for you when you packaged it, I can't see how anything would have changed unless it was disassembled and reassembled incorrectly. Is it possible the rail is not in the correct slot area (maybe a little too high)? This would cause the action to run very poorly...seems to me I did this once with my 88 when I first got it...there is an indentation or something above the groove for the rail . Could be wrong...just my 2 cents.
 
Canuck223,

Could be, but I only disassembled it once, and after reassembly it fired and functioned fine. I was racking the slide again the day I put it in the box and shipped it. Worked fine.

It's gotta be those slide rails somehow not jiving though.
 
i noitced one thing weird... Check teh last pic.
Joel told me to take out the pin to see what happens. Nothing...
But then i noticed the lil hole on top is INDENTED! does that mean something?
 
Ahhh, now I get it! On the opposite side, the pin must be poking out!

Can you push it back in? So instead of being indented on one side it is flush on both sides?
 
Joel said:
Ahhh, now I get it! On the opposite side, the pin must be poking out!

Can you push it back in?
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No. That pin isnt poking out on the other side. One side looks good the other side looks indented inwards.
 
Sorry for the big pic guys, I have no way to edit right now...I think that pin is the problem. If it is indented too much it could be blocking the bolt as it moves rearward. Here is a pic of how it is supposed to look on the other side. Can you remove it and re-install it? The other pin, the one that is removed in your picture that holds the trigger assembly in place, can be reinstalled.

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All I can say is I feel pretty bad. I sold Urban a firearm I said was in working order because for me it was in working order. Now he gets it and something is wrong. I know it sounds weak but I have no idea what happened.

Disregard the arrows, they are for where the mount goes.
 
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This happened to mine too.

I think this is the same thing that happened to me.

What looks like a pin directly above the trigger is actually not.

This is your problem if one side of this "pin" is indented and the other is not. Doesn't seem to make sense at first until you take the gun apart and find out that these "pins" are actually where the part numbered 19 ( in the diagram at the link) hook into the receiver to allow the feeding mechanism to pivot.

You must remove the barrel, remove the trigger group, and you may be able to wiggle this bar with the "half-pin" on the end to get the recessed "pin" back in the hole. If not, you must remove the bolt "carrier" and the bolt and reset the bars.

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I'm not sure how it happened to mine either, but I suspect rough handling popped the pin out. This obviously pushes the bar in and jams the bolt and carrier from moving to the rear.

Edit: Crap. The pic won't work. Here's the link: http://i.guns.ru/forums/icons/attachments/1_000555_000002_10852.gif

This is for a Mossberg 500, but ther guns are identical AFAIK.
 
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