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Posted: 3/23/2017 6:14:35 PM EDT
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I'm on a maintenance kick with my guns lately, and now that I'm to my 20+ year old AUG-A1 I have some questions:
1. Has anyone ever had to replace the recoil springs inside the guide rods? The locking pieces at the end of the rods seem to be Loctited on so it's not an easy swap 2. Is it ok to remove the ejector roll pin to take a look at the ejector spring? I've often heard that roll pins, in general, shouldn't be reused and to use a new one (which I don't have) |
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1. No, but I know how to do it and it's pretty involved compared to other stuff. 2. No, I believe it's a solid pin, not a roll pin. May be wrong on that. |
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I'd too like to know how to remove the thrust rod tops; I have 20 year old spring in there.  Friend on mine shot out his AUG: 20 years (and about 20,000 rounds, he estimated) of use left it unable to group at 100 yards. The recoil springs were still running the BCG just fine. AJ |
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ok, managed to get the ejector and roll pin out and back in. whoever owned it before me back in the 90's managed to mushroom one end of the pin so it was a pain getting it back in in an orientation that didn't leave a jagged edge extending above the body of the bolt.
Does anyone know the length of a new ejector spring? iirc, it's supposed to be replaced if it's shorter than 25mm and mine is right at 25mm |
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ok, managed to get the ejector and roll pin out and back in. whoever owned it before me back in the 90's managed to mushroom one end of the pin so it was a pain getting it back in in an orientation that didn't leave a jagged edge extending above the body of the bolt. Does anyone know the length of a new ejector spring? iirc, it's supposed to be replaced if it's shorter than 25mm and mine is right at 25mm AJ |
| I was having quite a few failures to eject in my AUG A3, with the brass impacting the front of the ejection port or stove piping. After a call to Steyr, the gentleman in their Tech department instructed me to replace the ejector spring or send it back for them to look at. Since I had a repair kit on-hand, I drove out the ejector roll pin to replace the spring. Turns out, the spring was short by a few millimeters. The gun had given me fits since it was new, and this solved my ejection problems. It even runs fine suppressed now. I believe I used the replacement roll pin in the repair kit, but I'm sure the original could have been reused. |
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