How to disassemble the 98 custom.

booradley172 wrote: thank you for your insightful post...it helped me a lot.

Oh really... How come I just had to go to your house and turn the front bolt around so your 98 would cock?

I'd probably add to this to ensure that you put the ball latch back in the proper direction, I used to do this when i first got my 98C and it used to annoy the hell outta me trying to figure out whey it was acting up from time to time.

I even took it to an airsmith once... Boy did i feel like a tard, luckily enough he had a good sense of humor about it.

from my own personal experience, DO NOT overtighten the power tube bolts-it will rip out the threads and your velocity will be psychotically off each time you shoot it without the bolt in, and it wont recock itself every 2 shots.

lazyeyepancho8 wrote: nice diagram thingie magigerre...

Thanks... fixed a pic.

Customizer wrote: what do u mean by degassed?

No CO2...

Hi folks,

I cleaned my 98C last night and found a few things that might save you a little time when re-assembling.

1. If your receiver halves don't fit together quite perfectly, it could be due to your tank adapter nuts shifting a bit during cleaning.Try loosening your tank adapter bolts slightly and your left receiver half should fall into place perfectly. Be sure to tighten these bolts again when you're finished.

2. Make sure you detent is facing the right way. It should face away from the front bolt so that when the front bolt moves forward, the detent compresses into its compartment perfectly.

If the detent is in backwards, the front bolt will hit it when it moves forward. It just feels wrong (rough) when you cock and fire.

I learned this the hard way (and had to take the gun apart again to fix it)!

3. That front sight spring is a pain in the butt to put back in place. Hook it around the pin, then pry the other side (the side with the wire sticking out)  into the rear hole in the front site. Hold the assembled site spring and site in place, then hook the elbow latch into place as quickly as possible.


Also, do you all dissassemble and clean your power tubes and valves? I didn't, because it looked a bit intimidating.

Would anything change if I have a super drop?

that diagram saved my gun. thnx

yessss.......^^^^

Hi,

I'm having trouble reassmbling my 98C. I went paintballing for the first time this weekend, and everything on the 98C worked great, except I was getting a leak from inside the gun. I believed this was due to the air supply line going into the gun, so I took it apart, applied teflon tape, and then began to put it all back together.

 

However, my bolt assembly is different from the one illustrated in the user manual, the pdf on the tippmann sight, and the one illustrated here. My rear bolt has two springs coming out of it, instead of one. I can't figure out which spring goes where... basically, i've tried different combinations to make it work, but after reassembling it, the cocker won't pull back far enough to let the sear catch. Please help. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong here.

 

There is one spring and a nail-shaped metal piece that you slide through one end of the spring. The other spring set has a spring wrapped around a metal dowel on each end of the metal dowel.

 

Where do these springs go? Thanks for your help.

Edited by axio - 19 June 2006 at 3:28am