Transfer bar replacement?

[tzimm007]

Howdy,
I got my older bros HR 20ga today because he said it would not shoot. The serial number is AT so I believe that is a 79 model and that is the year my dad bought it for him. I also see that it is the second yr they had transfer bars. I do not see what I believe is the transferbar on my new rifle on his old one so I am assuming that it is broken off on his. So can you buy a new transfer bar for a action that old and is it a DIY project or could it be something else.
Thanks Tj

[Goatwhiskers]

I will say that I don't know what year the transfer bars came out, but suspect that one should have one.  You should be able to get one from Numrich or Brownells, haven't ordered any in quite a while.  Changing one is something you can do with some basic mechanical ability, remembering that the frame pins come out from Right to Left, they have splined heads.  The trick to the whole thing is to make a couple of slave pins to hold parts in place while you reinsert the frame pins.  I have some that live in my tool kit.  Here endeth the lesson.  Goatwhiskers the Elder

[quickdtoo]

There are detailed instructions in the trigger hone info in the FAQs, just takes a few tools and patience as well as the parts, might as well change out the hammer spring while you're in their since you have to remove it to get to the t-bar, it's notoriously weak and probably needs to be replaced with a Wolff extra power spring, all this is covering in the FAQs, Numrich has the lifter-striker(t-bar), Brownells hasn't for a long time.

Tim

[tzimm007]

Thanks as always Ill get the parts ordered.
Tj

[gcrank1]

Likely to be the double leg hammer spring, not the single leg as on current models.
You can tell if it was to have the T-Bar by if the hammer face contacts the back of the F-Pin, or if a piece needs to come up from below to make it contact and push it forward.

[quickdtoo]

If it has a transfer bar, it uses the single coil spring. 

Tim