Ok, thanks to your photos, I was able to reassemble things and make it work properly. I will post the photos here to show the assembly relationship of the parts. Necessarily they are shown upside down with reference to the barrel. But that also is the easiest way to go about reassembling things. Once you see the relationship, you'll understand. The leaf spring has a lip on it that matches the rear most angle on the extractor. When assembling place the spring on the cut out section of the extractor, so that the lip married up witht the angle. Slide both extractor and spring into the lug extractor recess together. One they are in, install the first pin (nearest the chamber end of the lug ) by driving it into the hole. This pin holds the extractor/spring assembly into the lug. Next , Orient the Extractor "latch" (thats what I'm calling it, until H&R issues a exploded drwing with its proper name) so that it matches the photo. the hook part of the latch will push on the extractor. Install the small pin to hold the latch inplace. Finally install the large pin into the latch. Ensure that all small pins are below surface or flush so they do not rub. The large Pin should be equally distributed on both side of the lug. By the way, I polished up my extractor to remove tool marks and then put a light coat of gun grease on it before installation. See the photos!! thanks for the help on this, all, I hope you do figure out a way to change this into a ejector, it is difficult to grab Rimless cartridges like the 7mm-08...my 45-70 and 30-30 are not really a problem.
