Hi All:
Problem solved!
I got lucky and got this thing apart early this morning,3:00 A.M. Lol I could not sleep thinking about this challenge. Being a fairly limited person, it dose not require much to confuse me!
The problem was solved in two steps:
First problem was to get the bolt to turn in the action or be able to lift the bolt handle, the key to this problem had something to do with the extractor being "hung up" on the receiver bridge. After forcing the extractor away from the receiver bridge, I was able to tap the bolt handle open via a plastic faced hammer.
Once the bolt, firing pin, firing pin spring,and shroud was out of the action, I could now attack the problem of getting the shroud off of the bolt to release the other parts.
I discover that the firing pind could be wedged back with a scriber placed in a gas escape hole in the bolt body. This was levered against one of the notches that retain the cocking piece. Even though the movement was very slight, I could rotate the shroud very little to unscrew it. I was able to get a pair of parallel jaw pliers on the end of the firing pin and pull it to the rear allowing the shroud to be turned very little with each pull on the firing pin. The shroud then came off and I was able to remove the firing pin and spring.
I will have to figure out why the firing pin locked the shroud in poisition when it was in the fired poisition. This must be due the way that the firing pin tenon drops into mortise inside the bolt when it is rotated 90 degrees. How do they cut that tenon insde of the bolt for the firing pin to enter when the gun is in battery?
After messing with this 98, I have a much greater respect for the ingenuity of Paul Mauser!
Thanks to all of you who made suggestions.
Stay well my friends.
Franchi
