First of all, you can't trust J. B. Wood (or perhaps his layout editor). Says and pictures right there in the Gun Digest Disassembly No. V that you can get the stock off a Parker with the sears in place. (I checked the pic closely and the tails are showing and the stock is coming off?) Well, it don't work that way unless maybe half the web in the inletting is missing. This stock is very healthy for 90 yrs. old and as Jim Akins says, the sear axle has to come out.

So I pull the trigger plate (this well before the sear interference lesson) and that connecting rod that sits on the cocking tumbler (don't know the correct terms and don't really care at present) falls out. So I look at the orientation of that for a bit and I find the lever trip and get that out and then I'm looking for a spring underneath and find it's internal to the gizmozis. So I take a quick look and comparison of the sears and hammer notches, put them back in and then find I can't put the barrels and forend back on and cock it without all the extra crap under the hood in place plus the trigger plate. (Don't need no trigger plate with the Fox; you just raise the sears by hand.) So I finally get a sequence for getting hooks hooked and all the other stuff that has to seat against the spring loaded plunger (unlocking slide or some such?) and get it back to where it will cock hammers with the stock off. Now I can really hear the sears set. As I thought, the right hand is very late and here's the reason. Right sear is a nice shiny replacement and the chisel end is a bit longer than the Old Reliable original to its left. So I'm thinking that the best plan for me is to correct by duping the length, shape of the left. Left looks more worn than I've ever seen in a Fox or Ithaca but the pull seems heavy enuf. The jar off Sunday suggests that the engagement angle on the "new" sear also isn't a match for the hammer notch. All the screws and pins have been out of this one obviously and isn't gummed up inside so Ted S.'s "all bets off" scenario is operative: worked on by "civilian" like myself. I don't think there's anything wrong with the cocking train and I'm breating a sigh of relief over that. Expensive education!!!! Wish I had Bobby Brook or Jim standing over my shoulder to keep me from messing this up worse than it is already.

jack


Last edited by rabbit; 07/08/10 08:07 PM.