Cant disassemble Mark III

[Pete Puma]

I have been cleaning this great .22 for a little while but last night, upon reassembly, I inadvertently pushed the mainspring bolt up next to the hammer and it got lodged there. After some effort and no success, I tapped the barrel back out and that fixed it. I dont know if anything got damaged (dont think so), but now that it is reassembled a few problems:

1. the slide sticks and wont easily release back
2. the mag also is not going in smoothly, and last but not least,
3. the mainspring wont disengage, i can start its' removal, but it wont swing up and so ... have a paperweight.

Any help is appreciated.

Pete Puma

 

[blume357]

I don't think you have the barrel receiver slid back on all the way.... my first guess.

 

[Pete Puma]

Thanks for the reply. It did assemble ok, so if that were true, would it not have reassembled ?

Also, just checking it, after cycling, it will not fire, no click on empty mag -- I am wondering if when I first got it jammed, if I mangled the hammer some how.

How would one disassemble it at this point ?

 

[Pete Puma]

blume357 - You were right. I tapped the barrel back just a bit with the rubber mallet, and it allowed me to disassemble it again. But, once I get it back together again, there is no firing .. no click. Its as if the hammer or something may have been damaged when I got it jammed earlier - any ideas what to look at ?

Thanks.

Puma

 

[kacher1]

Shot in the dark here but when You "tapped the barrel back a bit" you may have released the hammer/strut from a stuck position which would account for not being able to disassemble till the hammer/strut got in the right position for disassembly. ( I have read that hammer taps on the back of gun is first thing to try when mainspring assembly will not come out.)

Another shot in the dark is maybe you reassembled it again not exactly correctly, (hammer strut again?) so no fire. Can you pull the bolt all the way back? Is there slight resistance or heavy when pulling the bolt back? These Rugers are tough and it takes a lot of "forcing" to screw them up. Unless you really hammered on it when it was stuck.

I only have Mark II's so not sure which problem you now have. Hopefully someone can diagnose it.

 

[blume357]

The only part of the Mark III assembly and dissasembly I know for a fact is you have to take a tool and move the internal hammer to the right place for both. It will not fall into the right place as the instructions imply.... at least for mine it is this way....

There is never a need to take the barrel/receiver off the grip.... get that part right.... take it all down and put back ... slowly... and good luck.

 

[wlkjr]

Pete, I did about the same thing as you. After trying to disassemble about 10 times over a few days I gave up. My son came over and I was showing the gun to him and explaining how I couldn't get the mainspring to swing up and lo and behold, it popped right up and I was able to get it disassembled and reassembled correctly. Seems fine now but haven't shot it since.