Tuning Cricket 2 Tactical - Dissasemble air tube and reg adjust help

[ctshooter]

Hey all - I'm looking to bump the reg up in my C2T 45 a touch. Removing the air cylinder has become a harder challenge with the bottle in front.

I'm familiar with removing the air cylinder and adjusting reg on the older Crickets, but the new bottle setup has me confused. 

I've removed the air, unscrewed the front bottle, loosened the screw holding the air cylinder and it freely rotates. There is a pin from the trigger guard into the air fill/gauge area so that you cannot unscrew that. I've tried removing screws 34 and 134 from the diagram:



So at this point I cannot unscrew the air tube and I am not able to tap it out forward easily. I do not want to force anything, so if anyone has done this please let me know what I am missing here.

Thanks.

 

[ctshooter]

Actually got this figured out. With 34 and 134 removed stick a small flat head between the air tube and rear block and just slowly work it forward. No need to remove the bottle actually. 

 

[Brent]

Nice to know, please post updates as you go. I have a tactical 60 in 22 and would be interested in your findings. 

 

[ctshooter]

I was able to bump up the reg a little bit and am now getting 45 fpe out of the C2T 45 with 25 gr. This is maxing out the hammer spring setting though, as in I can't screw in the adjuster any further.