Crosman 362 Review

Yeah now I'm in two minds as whether to get a slightly stronger hammer spring, or slightly weaker valve spring.
I may be able to over pump it a bit more if I can extend the time it's open.
The issue being how much will say a 10% stronger spring effect the trigger pull as opposed to a slightly weaker valve spring giving less resistance to the hammer. Or perhaps a valve spring with same resistance but less coils so it can compress more.
Any advise or word of wisdom from you more experianced tinkerers. (which would be at least 50% of you)

Here's a issue that cropped up with mine.
Hammer spring damage due to too long screw holding the back of breach in.
I'm not sure if it was caused by going from plastic to steel breech and a differnce in height.
Cheers Pauly for getting me onto it.

Would dropping the spring pressure that returns the valve to its seated position and increasing the hammer spring pressure do it.
If you can create an imbalance that keeps the valve open you'll exaughst all the gas. It would mean that the gun would have to be cocked before pumping to release the hammer pressure to allow valve to reseat. If that was case it would probly need a adjustable hammer spring tensioner to allow pressure to be taken off the valve so you could store it with a couple of pumps in it when not in use.
Definitely encouraging resaults so far, it will interesting to see how much extra fpe you get with valve and port mods.
Have you worked the valve stem to allow more flow around it?

Edited by kruzaroad - 11 May 2023 at 12:29am

I've never fired either of those before, so can't really compare for you sorry. I'm still enjoying the 362, although I haven't fired it much lately.
Must admit I've gotten so busy I'd forgotten to complete the review properly.

Skip that brought 1.
Whats chances of you doing a review of you 13xx.
I'd be keen to see what if any mods you've done and your opinion of them.
Also any 13xx parts upgrades you might
Consider for 362.

hey Pauly if you have the valve and piston tube off at any stage, can you take a pic off underside and throw the measurement of the slots and holes up plus overall length please.
Be curious to see if tube would fit 13xx model as well.
The valve upgrades are the same, but I'm thinking the extra length in tube might be the ticket to dropping the amount of pumps.
Its just curiosity at this stage.

Appreciate the post, great close up picture of the trigger mechanism.

A few cosmetic notes.

The pump arm is held in place by a good magnet. It snaps into place with authority after each pump and there is no movement when shouldering and firing.



The trigger is plastic, but has quite a wide blade. It would be much nicer if it was metal, as with the heavier weight you can feel a touch of flex. I plan to lighten it and eventually make a whole new trigger out of aluminium.



Looking at the trigger mechanism, there is plenty of option for modding here.



The red is what I plan to do. I will try putting 2 grub screws in the sear.

The barrel has some pretty rough blueing on it. It's more the barrel finish is rough than bad blueing though.



The butt pad is pretty good. It's got a nice amount of grip to it.



Next I might shoot some strings at different pumps and we will see how consistant it is.