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[Talfuchre]

I know it 'strikes' fine - but again - I want you to degass the marker - and make sure you can, easily and smoothly, slide the hammer and cocking rod assembly into the valve pin and bottom it out.

I had a set of CCM internals that I put into a cocker body - due to poor specs on the cocker body - it would strike the valve - but it would BARELY strike the valve - thus I could not get enough air release out of the valve.

I polished the hammer some until I took a few thousands off it and then reassembled. It worked great from there.

It sounds to me like your hammer is barely striking the valve - getting stuck on the body - and venting.

Check that for me.

TF

[rockwings]

It does that fine and strikes the valve. It has always worked shooting before, but it would vent, but now I hear a clicking sound when the sear is released

[russc]

Is this a superbolt? What gun is it installed in?

[rockwings]

Originally Posted by russc

Is this a superbolt? What gun is it installed in?

You guessed it.

[russc]

pump or mech? Superbolts need as much flow as you can possibly give them. See this thread:

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=2689852

As for the sear clicking, I also had that problem. I think it was catching on the front of the hammer, and would then catch on the lug after you start pulling. Really weird issue, and I think it was due to the sear sitting too high in the Superbolt frame.

[the_chemist]

Sounds like too much pressure, or too little when it vents. Are you sure your reg works?

[russc]

The problem with Superbolts is, you need a high pressure so that you maintain backpressure after a shot, but then the valve gets slammed shut and you get low fps. If you go low pressure to make the valve happy, the valve chamber is too small to keep back pressure and you vent.

It's a circular problem, and changing pressure won't solve it. You need to improve flow between the reg and valve chamber, and that usually means getting the drill out. WWA kits are particularly notorious for having bad flow.

[Talfuchre]

Aha... I learned something new again!

TF

[rockwings]

I'm using a check it mini pump kit (the vendetta one) My superbolt works fine with stock internals.

[freebird]

Not to bash to hard, But super bolts are TERRIBLE when it comes to consistent tolerances. Ive seen so many of them with different problems. And ive even seen some so out of spec that regular cocker parts wont even fit.