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Old 10-04-2018, 06:44 PM
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I hope I put this in the right section. Ive got an Sks thats giving me a few problems. When I release the bolt forward, the hammer drops right behind it instead of staying in the cocked position. If I charge it and release it a little slower it does stay cocked. Is this a disconnector problem? Because the sear and all seem fine, I havent done anything to it. No trigger job or anything. I did replace the hammer spring with a murrays 31lb and it kept acting up so I put the original back on. Anyways, any ideas? Its very unsafe in its current condition
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Old 10-04-2018, 10:54 PM
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replace sear and hammer
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Old 10-05-2018, 07:35 PM
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Ive got another sear and it does same thing. I'll try a new hammer next, just hammer tho or hammer and strut? Thanks
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Ive got another sear and it does same thing. I'll try a new hammer next, just hammer tho or hammer and strut? Thanks
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If you’re replacing parts make sure you use parts from the same country. There is some variation between Yugos, Norincos, Russians etc. Also, there is a guy in Texas, Tom Prince, who has a business that works on SKS triggers to make them safe and more two stage. His business uses a Finnish name: Kivaari. You might email him to see what he suggests. I sent my Yugo SKS trigger to Tom and he made it quite a bit better. It now has a decent military two stage trigger.

The other mod I made to my SKS was adding a firing pin spring so it wouldn’t slam fire when the bolt is released and goes into battery.
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Old 12-04-2018, 07:27 PM
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Sorry for such a late reply. It took me awhile to find the correct hammer/ strut, some places were selling some only for yugos? I know some parts interchange but anyways I eventualy found what I needed. Also been very busy at work as well, **** never ends. I havent got to try it out at the range yet but ive dry fired it a few times and ran a few empty cases thru just to make sure. It works though, it holds the bolt back now and even if I hand cycle the bolt it still works. Thank you all for the help, I greatly appreciate it. My wife will be thrilled, she loves the dang rifle more than I do
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The mating on the sear isn’t correct.
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Old 12-14-2018, 03:17 PM
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You could be right, I did throw another sear in with the new hammer. I found a guy selling them for less than $10 so I figured id try one. Put it in same time as new hammer so i just figured that was what fixed it. So your trlling me that the $10 sear was my issue? Dang lol
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