SKS Bolt pin removal

[Bulls-I_24]

I can not for the life of me pound out the pin in my bolt to disassemble it so i can clean it. I let it soak in gun cleaner with high grade lubricant to get all the cosmoline out. It seemed to do the trick the firing pin floats nicely, but I would still like to be able to take it apart.
Does anyone know why I can not pound this pin out and maybe some hints as to how I would?

It is a Yugo M59/66.

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[jmoore]

Ummm, I THINK you push back on the extractor to release it, shouldn't be hard then, or am I thinking of something else?

It's been a while, but it ought not be too hard to pull apart...


ETA- several hours too late- Yup, I'm delusional- pulled apart a bolt w/o messing w/ the extractor- it just drives out from the side opposite the extractor.

[Aragorn243]

You just aren't pounding on it hard enough.

I think you run into a thing where you feel you are going to break the blasted thing if you hit it any harder and you just have to overcome that feeling and hit it harder.

Get yourself a good hard surface that you can drill a hole into so the pin has somewhere to go and pound away.

I bought a Yugo about a month ago and watched a video online step by step and that was the most frustrating portion but it did finally come out.

[Bulls-I_24]

Yeah in the video I watched the guy said the pin would tap out hard put he was just using a ball peen and tapping pretty hard, harder than Ive ever seen for a pin. I had a block of wood with a hole drilled, the bolt was sitting flat and sitting on hardwood floor. I had a 16oz claw hammer and was smacking the crap out of it. If I swung any harder id be afraid of hitting my hand.
Im kinda ****ed anyway cause when I bought it the guy said it was unissued and all the #'s matched, which the ones you could see did, but the bolt and a couple other internal parts were replacements.

[duckcreekdick]

Rather than messing up the bolt for no purpose, I'd be content to just clean it with solvent and compressed air. If a little grease is bothersome to you, just boil the bolt in water, blow it dry with compressed air and lightly oil.

[Aragorn243]

Part of the reason I wanted to get it apart is I'm considering getting a replacement firing pin that uses a spring to prevent chain fires. I wanted to see if I could get it apart before spending the money on the new pin, they aren't cheap.

Still haven't decided if I need one as of yet. I expect this is something that could happen but very rarely does and as I'm not very likely to ever use this outside a range in a pretty controlled environment, I don't think it's much of an issue.

When I did get it out, it was already pretty clean as I'd sprayed Rem-oil into it which dissolved the cosmoline. My rifle wasn't coated with it to the extreme as some I've seen. It just had a light coating around the moving parts in the bolt area. Springs were pretty gooey.

[sandstorm]

i never had that much difficulty with any of my SKS , i would soak it in solvent over night .

[Bulls-I_24]

If u keep the bolt clean you dont have to worry about the pin sticking and the gun "slam firing" or "chain firing". Someone correct me If im wrong but I think you would have to shoot 1,000's of rounds without cleaning the bolt in order for enough gunk to build up to cause that.
I am content with soaking it, I guess, it just bothers me when i am supposed to be able to do something and I cant It looked like part of the pin was buggered on the side anyway, before I , Honest! If I can get a good pic of the @%&*#% up pin I'll post.
Anyway...

I picked up a Norinco today at a local pawn shop, I think I got a pretty good deal from what I've seen on gun broker. The two I have are the only two around here i've seen but I've only been collecting for about a year.I 'll see if this pin comes out

Does anyone know a good way to tell what year the Norinco was made? Or if it was Military? It has /26\ |"3 Chinese Letters"| R17******. I found a website that points towards it being a late model 70's-80's but Id like to know for sure. He doesn't say anything about the "R" unless that is a Cyrillic letter. Here is the website www.yooperj.com/SKS.htm

Now I just have to find a good deal on a Russian.....

[pittboomer]

Part of the reason I wanted to get it apart is I'm considering getting a replacement firing pin that uses a spring to prevent chain fires. .

you should have know probs with slam fires if the pin floats freely now and you keep it clean

[rhshooter]

I had the same issue with mine. You really do have to beat on it with a punch and hammer! I have never had to use that much force on any other firearm but my local gunsmith says that it is typical with the SKS. The flat flange on the opposite side needs to be hammered back in fairly firmly as well when you reassemble the bolt.

Jeff