Immediate Gas Leak

[coach]

^^ likely a faulty or extremely dry flow valve. Keep up with regular lubing or it will happen again.

To rehydrate dry seals and rings, it's not uncommon to have oil seeping or dripping out but it's a bit unnecessary. If you opened it, you can put the main seal and the flow valve in a silly oil bath for a few minutes or until it swells up a bit. Reinstall and you're good to go.

One reason why a flow valve vents gas is that the ring is dry and the valve sticks preventing it from closing completely.


Also, if you are shooting your gbb with that much oil in the mag, it's a good idea to break it down and do a full cleaning. At the least, wash the hopup rubber and clean the barrel.

[The Chad]

Thanks guys! Really awesome of you all to help.

[Kingly]

Thanks everyone for the input, tomorrow I'll get to work on that and no doubt i'll be back in action

[Kingly]

Originally Posted by Kingly

Thanks everyone for the input, tomorrow I'll get to work on that and no doubt i'll be back in action

So, its fixed now and all nice and clean
The weird thing is: behind the valve release (i think thats what to call it), had a piece of gold colored, stripped metal in it. It was like a piece of string only metallic. It took me a good 20 minutes to get it out of there but once I did everything was fixed.

Has anybody ever encountered this before?

Cheers,
Kingly

[coach]

Originally Posted by Kingly

So, its fixed now and all nice and clean
The weird thing is: behind the valve release (i think thats what to call it), had a piece of gold colored, stripped metal in it. It was like a piece of string only metallic. It took me a good 20 minutes to get it out of there but once I did everything was fixed.

Has anybody ever encountered this before?

Cheers,
Kingly

likely a bit of material stripped off one of the valve threads when it was installed.