Jewell trigger help....AGAIN

IowaYoteMan

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I had my Jewell installed and working great in another lower. I decided to switch the trigger out to another lower( and a different upper), and now I'm having adjustment problems.

I got the trigger and hammer in in about 5 minutes. Everything is functioning fine until you start shooting live rounds.

Here is what is happening.

I started out with a few slam fires. I called Jewell, and they told me to adjust the sear engagement counter clock-wise. I did this until the slam fires stopped, but now my gun jams every shot. I adjust the sear engagement screw clockwise until my gun slam fires again. There is no middle ground. Either I get slam fires or the gun jams.

Can someone tell me what the heck I need to do. Jewell is closed until Monday, and I want to hunt in the morning.

Is the over-travel screw setting to blame?

UPDATE!! I called highpowerrifle.com. They are the people behind the good directions that can be downloaded off the net. He told me to check the overtravel screw. It was set up correctly. I took the gun back outside, and the problem continued. I noticed that when the gun jammed, the bolt always was closed to the same position. I figured it out to be that as the bolt carrier went forward it would "hang up" on the hammer. When the gun did not jam, the hammer was never fully recokked (gotta love the spelling, no ***'s here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif ) thus the trigger was not reset. I called highpowerrifle back, and he told me that he has seen this problem before, and always has had to send the trigger back for replacement from Jewell. THIS SUCKS /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Has anyone got any advise? ever seen this before? I never expected a $200 trigger would be this much hassle /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

PLEASE HELP /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

IYM
 
IYM,
Don't you hate it when that happens! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif When will we learn to leave well enough alone? :rolleyes: Never! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Hopefully you have another trigger to as backup.
 
Man that does suck, I have never had a problem like that out of the 3 that I've installed but I did have a problem with an Oly lower, seems the safety hole was off by a few thousands and wouldn't let the trigger operate correctly. I'm only saying this because you said it worked fine in your other lower maybe there's a problem with this lower? I'd switch back to see if your problem still exists before sending it back to Jewell.
 
been there done that , I bought a jewell , after the THIRD trigger i found one that would work . Its probably the lower , but it may not be , when you change a jewell to another rifle it is not unusuall to have to readjust. I tried two diff triggers Tommy @ jewell sent me , neither worked in the lower i had ( rock river) , I took the trigger out of my bushmater ( also a jewell ) and it worked fine , I called tommy back and he said Ill send you one more , if it does not work ill refund your money , Pretty nice of him , Well i recieved the third trigger and yes it did work . I learned one thing here , If you have a jewell in a lower that is working leave it there and order a new one for the other lower . the new trigger that did not work was installed in my bushy lower and i could not get it to work there either so i could only assume the trigger had some type of problem . I have installed at least 1/2 dozen jewells and this was the first time i ran into this problem .It was doing the exact same thing you described . Jerry .
 
Jerry,

Thanks for letting me know that this is a common occurance. I am hoping Jewell will refund me my money as the triger is only a few weeks old. I tried 3 other triggers, a Bushy 2 stage, and 2 stock trigger groups, and they worked great. I think if they do refund my money, I'll just get a RRA 2 stage for $77 off AR15.com. Nowhere near the Jewell as far as adjustability, but no headaches either. I loved the trigger when it was working, but dont know if I want to go through the hassle of returning triggers until I find one that works.


IYM
 


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