{"id":1752,"date":"2009-10-03T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/03\/250-pumps-marauder-springs-a-leak\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T05:18:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T10:18:28","slug":"250-pumps-marauder-springs-a-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/03\/250-pumps-marauder-springs-a-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"250 Pumps.  Marauder springs a leak."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like my new .22 Benjamin Marauder has a leak, which sucks considering this was my entry into the world of PCP.  Plus I cannot seem to stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like any time I pump the gun over 2000 psi, the pressure slowly (or not so slowly depending on how these things are suppose to work) dwindles down to 1800-1900 psi.  This is a very consistent pattern.  I have pumped the crap out of the Hill hand pump the last 18 hours just to verify the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of sending the gun straight away to Crosman for repairs, I decided to take things into my own hands to see if I could actually get thing leak beat.  First, I tried to tighten the nipple fill area, and while it could be tighten a little, that did not help things.  Next I separated the action from the stock, and then got really brave and barrel band.  I decided to degas the gun and remove the gauge (really just removed the gauge assemble).  Everything looked in order; o-ring was there, so not sure what else needed to be inspected.<\/p>\n<p>I then started pumping from 0.  25 pumps followed by a brief period of rest.  It took 250 pumps to go from 0 psi to 2300-2400 psi.  Good grief was that a lot of work!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>001-025<\/li>\n<li>026-050 (50 bar; 700 psi)<\/li>\n<li>051-075 (just under 1K psi)<\/li>\n<li>076-100 (just under 100 bar)<\/li>\n<li>101-125<\/li>\n<li>126-150 (~140 bar; just under 2K psi)<\/li>\n<li>151-175<\/li>\n<li>176-200<\/li>\n<li>201-225 (185 bar; 2400 psi)<\/li>\n<li>226-250 (180 bar; 2300 psi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notice that at the very end the psi started going down; leak city, which is more than enough to make me no I am not crazy \u2013 the gun does lose pressure rapidly.  I left everything alone to take my middle boy to soccer, and then the family to lunch.  So after about 3 hours of rest, the Marauder gauge now shows just a tad under 2K.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure where to go from here.  I was hopeful that the degassing (it was very loud) would blow out debris that may be causing a problem, but it looks like that did not fix my issue.  I do not think the fill nipple is causing the problem, so maybe that means I need to mess around a little more with the gauge and gauge adaptor.<\/p>\n<p>I am too damn sore (seriously) to do any more pumping today; that Hill pump will put some hair on your chest!  I hate degassing again just to play around with the gauge, but short of that I am not sure what else I can do other than sending this to Crosman and letting them sort out the problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like my new .22 Benjamin Marauder has a leak, which sucks considering this was my entry into the world of PCP. Plus I cannot seem to stop the bleeding. It looks like any time I pump the gun over 2000 psi, the pressure slowly (or not so slowly depending on how these things &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/03\/250-pumps-marauder-springs-a-leak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">250 Pumps.  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