I found this site a couple of days ago and have been searching the lever guns trying to find where a part goes.
I picked up the Winchester 30-30 at a pretty good price, (100.00) a couple of weeks ago, I'm guessing it's a 1980 model, (sr# 3894142), and it was a mess., The barrel looked fine and everything worked. What I did find was a lot of solidified grease and oil on just about every moving part. I doubt it was ever cleaned or even used. I downloaded every thing I could find on the rifle including all the pictures and Howto's and then photographed as much of it as I could. (I knew they were not the easiest to detail strip), before taking it apart. I managed to get every thing back together except of a small curved (spring?). It's about 2"long 1/8" thick with a hook on one end an and offset on the other end. All of my searching failed to come up with that particular piece. I believe I saw it on one of the exploded views but there were no identifying part numbers. It shows it as 20 between 19 and 21 but that's it. I was wondering if anyone here might point me to a site that would have a decent explanation of how and where it attaches.
Thanks.
I picked up the Winchester 30-30 at a pretty good price, (100.00) a couple of weeks ago, I'm guessing it's a 1980 model, (sr# 3894142), and it was a mess., The barrel looked fine and everything worked. What I did find was a lot of solidified grease and oil on just about every moving part. I doubt it was ever cleaned or even used. I downloaded every thing I could find on the rifle including all the pictures and Howto's and then photographed as much of it as I could. (I knew they were not the easiest to detail strip), before taking it apart. I managed to get every thing back together except of a small curved (spring?). It's about 2"long 1/8" thick with a hook on one end an and offset on the other end. All of my searching failed to come up with that particular piece. I believe I saw it on one of the exploded views but there were no identifying part numbers. It shows it as 20 between 19 and 21 but that's it. I was wondering if anyone here might point me to a site that would have a decent explanation of how and where it attaches.
Thanks.