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My trusty US Postal Carbine, reliable pal of many years has recently started to fail to fully eject spent cases. the cases get stuck just above the magazine neatly jammed between top of the bolt face and the receiver ring. i stripped the bolt, tossed the parts in an utrasonic cleaner, and reassembled it with a new extractor and spring, ejector piston and spring along with a new op rod spring (Wolff kit from Brownell's). appropriate lube was used during reassembly. this did little or nothing to help. i tried different mags, and had the same result. so the question is am i "running out of gas"? the gas piston looks good and is free in it's bore, but i have never had the piston out and cleaned inside the gas block. i have a gas piston wrench, and am not afraid to go in there if that's where my problem lies. i thinking the gas block is filled with crud from cleaning etc and i'm low on pressure. any ideas on this?