I am having a problem with my Romanian SKS. The bolt does not always come all the way back. Sometimes it doesn't lock back on the last round and sometimes it doesn't fully eject the spent round. A search revealed that many have had this problem with the gas valve on the yugo models with the grenade launcher valve. The Romanian does not have this. I have throughly cleaned the gas system and checked the chamber for smoothness and all looks good. The whole gun including the inards looks like new. HELP!
Romanian SKS ejection problem
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How tight is the gas tube can you move it much from front to back. Is the recoil spring in correctly kinked end going into back of the bolt carrier. Did you remove the short rod under the rear sight housing clean it out and repack the rod and spring with some grease. Also does all the parts have matching numbers.
I think I found the problem. A closer examination of the gas tube reveled heavy pitting for the first 1/2". I'll try swaping the gas tube from one of my other SKSs and see what happens. And yes the spring was in correctly and the cosmoline cleaned out of the plunger behind the gas rod. Thanks for the help. I'll let you know how it worked out.
I took the gas tube off one of my other SKS's and put it on the Romanian and went to range. Problem solved. I found replacement tubes for $40 and new after market with built in scope rail fo under $20. I think I'll get the after market one and install it on one of my modified SKS's and put an origional on the Romanian one since it all origional. Thanks for the help.
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·Sucks though ! I would beadblast the tube inside or try to smooth it out .Or try a molly paste in the tube during a shooting session then clean it out if it was a matching number tube.
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