![]() ![]() I could now see where the binding was happening. I removed the bolt body and moved the firing pin to the fired position. I marked the points of where I felt the most binding on the cocking piece with a marker. I could feel it in the cocking piece when trying this method. I noticed it would bind, let up, bind again and felt rough when moving from the closed to open position. I would apply light pressure to the cocking piece and slowly move the bolt handle. Then added the firing pin and cocking piece, without the spring, and there it was, the binding and sticky bolt. I added the bolt sleeve, still no binding. The bolt body, with extractor, had no binding. I tried going step by step, adding parts back to the bolt and seeing if I had any changes. ![]() I didn’t remove my extractor for this part, but if yours sticks when you insert it into the receiver, remove it. If any of you are dealing with this problem I suggest following this procedure. So I proceeded to place my 48 in my gun vise and get to work. If you’re familiar with the M48, you will know what I’m talking about, so I won’t go into detail on that. After many hours searching the webs I thought I had a good idea on what may have been causing the problem. So I finally decided to find the problem with my rifle. I just thought it was because it needed a good break in due to hearing that so much with these rifles. I noticed the bolt was very stiff when opening the bolt, when fired and when nothing was in the chamber. I have owned this Yugo M48 for several years now and have only shot it a few times. Just as the title says, M48 “sticky bolt” problem and findings. ![]()
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