Lee F
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I posted this over on AR15's AK site also but I'm looking for any help I can get.
I have a SAR-1 of 2002 vintage with trigger slap so I purchased a Tapco G2 single hook fire control group at the gun show this weekend. Following the instructions on the Linux3 site I had the old set out in less than five minutes. Installing the new set only took a little longer in spite of the shepards crook. After getting everything put back in I found two problems.
1. If you thumb cock the hammer, while the bolt carrier group is still out, the hammer is caught and held by the disconnect. The disconnect will not release the hammer unless you compress the disconnect spring by hand. I ignored this for a second or two.
2. I re-installed the safety to find out it would not engage. The edge of the trigger is too high and the safety can't ride over the top of it. This is metal to metal contact and I had to remove the trigger.
I troubleshoot electronics for a living so I thought I could figure out the problem. I began by re-installing all the old parts, everything worked fine. Then I started substituting one of the new Tapco parts for one of the Century parts at a time. I managed to get all of the new parts to work except for the trigger. Now my question is this, which is more likely to be wrong a bad Tapco trigger or the hammer and trigger pin holes too close in the receiver? Tapco has a great reputation for backing up their products so I'm not concerned about the part but would like to make sure its bad before I start shipping things back. Thanks for the help,
p.s. I called Tapco after work this evening and they agreed with a poster on AR15 that I would have to file down the offending parts but quickly reminded me that would void the warranty. So much for AK's having interchangeable parts like AR's.
I have a SAR-1 of 2002 vintage with trigger slap so I purchased a Tapco G2 single hook fire control group at the gun show this weekend. Following the instructions on the Linux3 site I had the old set out in less than five minutes. Installing the new set only took a little longer in spite of the shepards crook. After getting everything put back in I found two problems.
1. If you thumb cock the hammer, while the bolt carrier group is still out, the hammer is caught and held by the disconnect. The disconnect will not release the hammer unless you compress the disconnect spring by hand. I ignored this for a second or two.
2. I re-installed the safety to find out it would not engage. The edge of the trigger is too high and the safety can't ride over the top of it. This is metal to metal contact and I had to remove the trigger.
I troubleshoot electronics for a living so I thought I could figure out the problem. I began by re-installing all the old parts, everything worked fine. Then I started substituting one of the new Tapco parts for one of the Century parts at a time. I managed to get all of the new parts to work except for the trigger. Now my question is this, which is more likely to be wrong a bad Tapco trigger or the hammer and trigger pin holes too close in the receiver? Tapco has a great reputation for backing up their products so I'm not concerned about the part but would like to make sure its bad before I start shipping things back. Thanks for the help,
p.s. I called Tapco after work this evening and they agreed with a poster on AR15 that I would have to file down the offending parts but quickly reminded me that would void the warranty. So much for AK's having interchangeable parts like AR's.
