Ryan, thanks for posting this. I have a rough one (my second) that needs some work - the only thing I had been informed of about these before was how difficult it was to get the hammer spring back in, which you confirmed.
Mine is either missing the arm that cocks the hammer, or it is broken. It also is missing the little flipper piece on the inside of the loading gate - so your instructions there will be a lot of help, hopefully I can find a way to fix that without taking the loading gate completely off - but it doesn't look like it, I think I will at least have to take out the hammer & lower tang.
