Well help needed for a family friend...

[jringo8769]

Well a good family friend has a nice 1967 winchester 94 30-30 with the problematic stamped steel lifter....i am told and i am not sure of this is true or not...that lifters from other years can be used to fix this problem...i know my other 94 from late 71 has the better lifter....gun has not been shot in years due to this problem and they asked for my help....any help getting a nice older winchester 94 back working again will so be appreciated...God Bless and thanks in advance,John

[AJMD429]

Lots of experts here so someone should come across this thread soon with an answer.

[jringo8769]

well thank u ...i am sure this should be able to be fixed...
appreciate the response
God Bless,John

[gamekeeper]

J Miller should come up with the correct answer, if he doesn't see this thread I'd send him a pm.

[J Miller]

Somewhere after the 70s Winchester did away with the stamped carrier and went to a cast one. Much better. These will fit and work in the earlier 94s without any modification that I know of.
I have had several Win 94s with the stamped carrier but they never gave me any trouble so I didn't replace them.
Griff builds his own so he'd know if there are any other parts that need replaced at the same time as the carrier.
One thing I would suggest is to replace the carrier spring at thesame time as the carrier.

Joe

[Pete44ru]

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The pre-64 Model 94 carriers cannot be replaced with any post-64 carriers - of which there were two different ones, interchangeable with each other.

From 1964 to late 1970, Winchester installed the stamped/sheet-metal carriers.

Very late in 1970, starting with the 1971 NRA Centennial Models, Winchester changed the carrier to one that resembles the pre-64 carrier, but is a casting (look for the mold mark/line running front to rear down the middle of the top/bottom of the carrier).


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[gak]

Good stuff.

[jringo8769]

well thank u for the great info...i just seen him a few hours ago and gave it to him.....he says thank u so much....was not able to find that info anywhere...God Bless,John...hopefully he can find the parts to get this back working here very soon...