ASM 1860 Colt army issue

[puddlepirate920]

Good afternoon,
A family member recently gifted me an early 1980s production, unfired Armi San Marco Colt 1860 Army brass frame. I broke down the whole gun to clean it and make sure everything was working properly. I noticed that upon reinstalling the loading lever/plunger, when I push down on the loading lever to simulate loading a ball into a chamber the whole loading lever and plunger come loose from the frame and and slides out of position.

I have done extensive digging online to see if anyone else has had a similar issue but I haven't found anything similar to what I have been running into. I am thinking maybe the loading lever teeth might be out of spec or the groves in the barrel that the loading lever teeth engaged my be out of spec.

I am new to the colt pattern BP revolvers so any insight on this would be helpful. thank you!

 

[Phil Coffins]

Maybe a photo will give us a better ideas. The lever moves on a screw, is that in place?

 

[puddlepirate920]

Phil, yes the screw is in place.

I am currently in the process of a military move and I have the pistol packaged up. I should be able to get to it in a couple days. I’ll post pictures then. Thank you for the quick response!

 

[puddlepirate920]

Phil,
Sorry I'm just getting back to you, the movers finally came and I was able to get my revolver out of storage. The third picture is as far as the lever will go before it pops out of the frame as is in picture 4 and 5

 

[springfield art]

I have an ASM 1860 Colt steel frame from the 1991-about period. Nice pistol!

 

[SDSmlf]

Your photograph with the lever down just past 90° is about as far as it should travel. Without the gun in hand, would appear that the pocket in the bottom of the barrel is too deep, allowing the rammer to over rotate until the last cog disengages from the barrel allowing the rammer to come free. If I am correct, you should be able to press fit a piece of steel in there to serve as the stop.

 

[necchi]

when I push down on the loading lever to simulate loading a ball into a chamber the whole loading lever and plunger come loose from the frame and and slides out of position.

Oh, well that's OK,, it's supposed to.
That's how ya take the lever out to clean it. It was designed that way.
It won't do that when ya actually pack a load.

 

[SDSmlf]

Oh, well that's OK,, it's supposed to.
That's how ya take the lever out to clean it. It was designed that way.
It won't do that when ya actually pack a load.

Interesting. I have no ASMs, but multiple replica 1860s that I have you must remove the pivot screw from the rammer assembly to get rammer out of the barrel assembly. How do I correct them them so the rammer comes out when inserted into an empty chamber? Or when the barrel is separated from the frame.