Paintball Gun Maintenance: Tearing Down a Tippmann 98 Custom

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Robert Stewart, with hill13.com. So we've got our tools together, and we know what really what we've got to do in terms of safety, all that's done. Now we're going to look at a specific model, and talk about how you tear it down, and it's a rental field favorite; it's the 98. This is a Tippmann 98 Custom, with the A.C.T. Grip on it. Now the first couple things you're going to want to do; we've already shown how to get a barrel off. On this one it looks like it might be a little odder, but really it's just the same way; it is a threaded barrel. So we're going to remove the barrel first, and inspect the o-ring while we're here, and it doesn't look bad, so we're not we're not too concerned about that. The next thing is that the front side on a 98; if you press down on it, the feed will open up this way, and if you were on the field, and just needed to quickly clean your gun, you'd just flip this open, run your squeegee in, clean the barrel, snap it to, put your hopper back on, and you'd be good to go. But here we're going to take it loose by pushing down on the front site again, and when it lifts out, you can take the two bolts that hold it to the weapon, and take it completely off. Now, the next two things we're going to have to do is we got to pull these two screws for the air supply, because we're about to take the entire frame of the receiver apart, and the two screws that do that are this screw at the front here, and this rear screw in the grip. So, we're going to pull these, and then we're going to pull these and we'll be able to get inside the gun."