Next question to ask is if the people giving you advice are at all familiar with Baker ejector work? Because if they were, they would know that there’s alot of moving parts in the system and any one of them out of spec can cause problems, multitudes of problems. Sometimes the fix is so simple it seems ridiculous.
I would NOT just go shortening parts either. That’s dumb. The individual who knows a little something about Bakers would definitely have to have the gun IN-HAND to see what exactly was going wrong before starting to take any kind of metal down.