My Century Arms AK-74 needs a new barrel

[jmecklen]

My Century Arms AK-74 needs a new barrel. Is there anybody in the middle TN. or southern Kentucky that can help me out?

[Dolomite_supafly]

Is it a new gun or is it an older gun that has been shot a lot?

 

And have you done all the obvious like clean it really, really well? Have the crown redone? Or tried different ammo?

 

Manson Reamers makes a very nice recrowning tool. It is also VERY cheap for what it is and what it does. it is possible to recrown a barrel without removing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b23lfzpZrJ4

[DMark]

John,

 

Is this one of the notorious CAI builds where they put the 5.56 barrels into their AK-74s?

[jmecklen]

John,

 

Is this one of the notorious CAI builds where they put the 5.56 barrels into their AK-74s?

Century Arms Notorious it is. Key holed from day 1.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Have you contacted Century Arms? Who knows, if they are aware of the problem they might fix it for you.

[jmecklen]

Have you contacted Century Arms? Who knows, if they are aware of the problem they might fix it for you.

Century Arms is aware. This issue is years old.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Century Arms is aware. This issue is years old.

Have you contacted them?

[jmecklen]

Have you contacted them?

Yep. Just looking for a AK smith that can press in a new barrel, in the mid-tn, southern ky. area.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Ok, not clue as to a smith.

[Schadenfreude]

Helped a buddy replace the barrel on his - we cut that old barrel apart so that you could see that there really wasn't any d@mn rifling in that thing,. 223 rifling would have been match grade compared to this thing. I believe he has since sold or traded all the tools we used but I'll see what i can find out

[R1100R]

You can give Bret a call. He builds fantastic AK's. I just don't know if he does repair work.

 

 

http://neverenoughguns.com/

[Schadenfreude]

Do a google search for "AK-74 Barrel Transplant" its on another forum but has pics of what a friend of mine did for his