Not mentioned, but every airgunner should have a set of gun smithing tools, screw drivers etc. torque wrench, callipers.Then all you need are a replacement spring, breech and piston seals. Might as well get an extra set of stock screws....-YPS and tons of pellets and targets.
I'd go with the Vortek kit, I believe the 85 and 95 take the same kit, and they offer a 12 fpe version, but Tom can set you up with whatever power level you want, I told him what I wanted power wise and pellet I was using and he told me what spring to order to achieve that. Regardless of the spring, the vortek piston seals are great. Ron, with the steel slivers, was this something that occurred right after install, or developed over time? Nothing looked out of the ordinary when I opened it up a few months ago, but I've only had it in there about a year or so, and didn't do much shooting last summer, mostly just eliminating red squirrels and woodchucks.
Tom's a great guy I still work with him. He will always make good on something. I consider him a friend. That said I've had more than half of the steel kits have clearance problems. Sometimes it's immediate other times it turns up later. I've had guns that I clearanced and polished look good at assembly and several dozen shots later only to start rubbing after a few hundred shots. Apparently the guides can move enough during use to rub on either the cocking arm foot or shoe depending on which gun type. I have lots of pictures of damaged PG4 kits and compression tubes. The steel slivers get dragged up and down the compression tube and score the compression tube. I almost lost my shi+ when one damaged the compression tube on my special edition R9. It takes too much work to clearance a gun with these steel guide kits. At least with the Weihrauch models. Everytime you don't get it right you have to strip the entire gun mechanically and chemically. It's a royal pitaTom's a good guy. His seals are best available. These PG4 kits are not his best design. I have guns still running great with the plastic PG2 kits. IMO Tom should revert to this design. Until then the Maccari /ARH kits are a safer bet.HTHRon
Quote from: Bayman on March 03, 2023, 07:00:33 PMTom's a great guy I still work with him. He will always make good on something. I consider him a friend. That said I've had more than half of the steel kits have clearance problems. Sometimes it's immediate other times it turns up later. I've had guns that I clearanced and polished look good at assembly and several dozen shots later only to start rubbing after a few hundred shots. Apparently the guides can move enough during use to rub on either the cocking arm foot or shoe depending on which gun type. I have lots of pictures of damaged PG4 kits and compression tubes. The steel slivers get dragged up and down the compression tube and score the compression tube. I almost lost my shi+ when one damaged the compression tube on my special edition R9. It takes too much work to clearance a gun with these steel guide kits. At least with the Weihrauch models. Everytime you don't get it right you have to strip the entire gun mechanically and chemically. It's a royal pitaTom's a good guy. His seals are best available. These PG4 kits are not his best design. I have guns still running great with the plastic PG2 kits. IMO Tom should revert to this design. Until then the Maccari /ARH kits are a safer bet.HTHRonRon, is there a particular noise that you can hear when cocking the gun that gives you a clue that the guides are rubbing? I have PG4 kits in my R9 .177 and HW95 .22. They dont cock quite as silently as a couple of my other guns, but they are not noisy either. I'd rather strip, if needed, and find issues now rather than later.