Wha Happen to my Kraken?

[Dusti69]

ok so i got home today and cleaned everything out which solved the accuracy problem. it shoots straight now but theres still the big drop in fps and no matter where i adjust the hop to it has no effect, plus i noticed my cylinder head is very loose in the cylinder but seems to have somewhat of a seal but obviously not enough

so im assuming i need a new hop up rubber and a better cylinder head right?
also wondering if the bearinged spring guide along with the bearinged piston head could be causing it to lose fps

[DB19]

Originally Posted by Dusti69

thats funny cuz i had already cleaned it before i had made this thread and thought there might not be enough lube in the cylinder. sounds like i gotta lotta crap to clean out of stuff when i get back home

....ive been using g&p's cylinder grease but its more like an oil

I have the G&P grease/oil set and the "Cylinder Grease" is not a grease its an oil. I would never use it for the cylinders. Has anybody used it with good results?

[Dusti69]

well i havent had any problems with it before. it seems to lube well and stay in place. i only ever put two drops on the o ring of the piston head when re-lubing.

just need to figure out how to get my fps back
and i forgot to mention this new complication. i had the gearbox open to clean out some of the cylinder/piston head lube and checked the cylinder head and thats all i did. then i closed it up and put the gun back together. and now none of my 8.4 large batteries run the gearbox very well and the trigger locks up and then the usual way to fix that is to fire a burst in full auto which then sounds like the battery is dead and stops yet when i plug all them into a dif aeg they run it just fine. the 11.1 lipo is the only battery that it runs on now and i dont even have an upgrade spring in the damn thing but i dont wanna have to use the lipo

so now not only do i need to figure out where the fps went, but now i have a problem running it which i dunno what could be since the batteries work fine in a dif gun

i think im gonna lose the bearinged spring guide and gaurder cylinder and switch back to its original ones and see if theres any improvements

[justinpman]

Well it's not your hop up, so dont bother waisting money on that. It is all of that greese that you took out of the gun. The first thing people think, when they see all that greese is that it is just dirt, and should be cleaned out. Anybody who knows anything about mechanics should know that for orings and pistons to work, heavy grease and oil must be applyed to helped the oring seal. I did a run with my gun without all the greese, and it went only like fifty feet. Even with just some oil, there isn't thick enough lube to help create a seal.

[Dusti69]

well i dunno what the problem is anymore. i dissassembled the hop up and cleaned it and changed the sleeve for a gaurder sleeve. cleaned the piston head and re-lubed it. then i took out the bearinged spring guide and gaurder cylinder and put back in the krakens original ones. i still didnt get back its normal fps. its still incredibly weak. i even tried a couple dif springs in it. and it still doesnt work right with the batteries.

[Dusti69]

i took out every upgrade part cept for the air nozzel and now it works again.
i still need to get a better cylinder head if i wanna use the nice gaurder cylinder.

the problem must have been the metal piston head that fit so tight inside both cylinders. i think it must be for with stronger springes as it shot fine when i had the systema m120 in it

i put my ka pom piston and g&p bearinged piston head in it and i need to get the metal spring guide out of my ca gearbox. so everything seems in working order now