Hey,This gun is getting ready to go back in the closest! Or the garbage! Unless U guys can help me,Its miss firing! It was jamming until i changed ammo to copper nosed Winchester High V. now it just miss fires ever few shots! Dammit! I cleaned the dam thing with a tooth brush! Got the dirt out around the chamber and everything changed the firing pin and hammer spring,I was going to change the recoil spring but it looks like all the websites are sold out,The recoil spring could possibly be the problem? But i did a test I held down the bolt and used spent rounds just to see how hard the firing pin was hitting,Well..sometimes it hits harder than others.Don't make no sense dam sense!Same when i`m shooting it,Shoots two or three shots fine,Then it miss fires.Even with rapid fire!But it did miss a bullet a couple times on the return feed,I think that was because of the rapid firing.O yeah!before i forget?I've had a few!LoL Sorry,Anyway! How do U polish the bolt and rails?What are the rails,Somebody said do that,Please help,THANKS.
I'd suggest pulling the bolt out and removing the fireing pin, the odds that a steel fireing pin is worn out ther but slim, my guess the bolt's just jambed up with decades of old oil which varnished up mixed with the burnt powder residue, the bolt is gummed up and ther's grime built up at the shoulder where the fireing pin rides, each stroke of the fireing pin tamped in more sludge and packed it in like a old hay baler, jest get in ther and clean it up, probibly use a old tooth brush, some wood or plastic tooth pick's if you have a old nut pick use that and see that you clean every trace of forien substance off the bolt and out off the fireing pin slot, new springs are nice but try cleaning the bolt first.
The Marlin Model 60 is really bad for powder buildup in the trigger group area. try detailed cleaning first, you wont have to dissemble the trigger group just use patence and plenty of Q-tips best if you soak the hammer/ trigger group and bolt assy it in a old bread pan filled with a mix of diesel fuel mixed with a little ATF fluid.
You can do guite a bit of cleaning useing items from round the house, bobby pins bits of wire, sewing needles, or you can break the bank and buy a whole slew of picks and scrapers and ultrasonic tank cleaner useing high dollar cleaning solvents.
Last edited by Rex in OTZ; 02-25-2010 at 08:01 PM.
i have had the same problem with mine. the first time i went to shoot it, i only got off 6 rounds. a thorough cleaning came next and it works a little better, but sometimes it still misses. i haven't played around with it much, but it seems that if i don't tighten the rear takedown screw very tight that the problem goes away. i have been thinking of taking some .005" ss shim stock and trying to shim between the trigger assembly and action. any thoughts on this? i want to make sure that it will fire when i pull the trigger.
