Air Arms S400/S410

Strip & Rebuild Instructions

• WARNING – The legal limit for air rifles in the UK is 12 ft. lbs. It
is YOUR responsibility to ensure your rifle is below this limit.
• Read these instructions thoroughly before you attempt to carry out
these operations ensure you understand what you are doing. If you
are not confident, please ask a competent gunsmith to undertake
this work.
• No responsibility will be accepted by the author for work carried
out.
• Take care when working with high pressure air ensure the
reservoir is empty before you attempt any work on the rifle.
• This work must undertaken in clean conditions free from dirt,
dust, greases or lubricants.
 TOOLS REQUIRED
• 1.5mm Allen Key
• 2.5mm Allen Key
• 3mm Allen Key
• 5mm Allen Key
• Anti-Tamper Security Torx Key T10
• Small Pick
1. Ensure cylinder is empty from air, this can be achieved by repeat firing.
2. Remove Magazine if applicable.
3. Ensure gun is not cocked by pulling the trigger and leaving the bolt in
the home position.
4. Remove scopes & silencer if fitted (fig. 1).
5. Remove action from stock 1x M6 on S400/S410 (5mm Allen Key)
(fig. 2). Replace this with bolt and washer A when rebuilding.

Fig 1

Fig 2
6. Remove plate from right hand side of gun 3x M3
capheads (2.5mm Allen Key) (Fig. 3). Replace these with
3 off bolt B when rebuilding.
7. Undue bolt mechanism 6x M3 capheads (2.5mm Allen Key)
(Fig. 4). Replace these with bolt C when rebuilding.

Fig 3 Fig 4
8. Lift the bolt mechanism slightly and gently slide the bolt
mechanism and barrel backwards until the barrel comes free from
the barrel support ring. (fig. 5) There is an O-Ring seal between
the bolt mechanism and the main centre manifold (fig. 6) this can
be discarded.

Fig 5 Fig 6
9. Remove rear assembly by unscrewing 1 x M6 Caphead
(5mm Allen Key) (Fig. 7). Replace with bolt D when
rebuilding. Fig. 8 shows the hammer spring assembly and the
Standard hammer spring arrowed, this can be removed and
replace with the performance hammer spring, if applicable.

Fig 7 Fig 8
10. S400/S410 Remove pressure gauge 1x M5 Domed Head
(3mm Allen Key) (fig. 9). Replace with bolt H when rebuilding.
11. Replace O-Ring seal A and B with seals A and B ready for
reassembly (fig. 10) ensure O-Ring B is seated correctly into the
recess in the aluminium block.

Fig 9 Fig 10
B

A
12. Unscrew the manifold from the reservoir (fig. 12) this can
normally be done by hand, however if this is too tight you will
need to use some form of clamps, vice, collets or wrenches etc..
Ensure that you do not apply to much pressure when clamping
as to distort or damage the thin wall reservoir section. Ensure
padding is in place before clamping to prevent surface damage.
13. Replace O-Ring C as shown in fig. 13 ready for reassembly.

Fig 12 Fig 13
The following steps explain how to remove the pot assembly. This however is
not essential for replacing seals or spring supplied in the kits. Some early
S400/S410 models may have a different shorter hex head pot and it is not
necessary to remove.
14. Slacken off the M3 grub screw (1.5mm Allen key) as located in fig. 14 this
will allow you to unscrew the pot (grub screw E). You will need to mark the
threads at the position where the pot is screwed into the manifold as shown in
fig. 15. The amount this pot is screwed into the manifold controls the exhaust
valve closure pressure (approx 57mm) This area must be kept scrupulously
clean.
Fig 14 Fig 15

E
15. Fig 16 shows that this style of pot is made up of 2 parts bonded together, be careful
not to disturb this as you will need to bond them back together before you can rebuild
the rifle.
16. With this style of pot you can open out the hole (fig. 17) to allow more compressed
air to flow through when the hammer spring opens the exhaust valve. On the
alternative pot there is an M3 grub screw through the side of the hole unscrew this out
to have the same effect. Do not exceed 3mm diameter! This hole must be a good finish
it is recommended to ream this hole to achieve this, poor finish left in the pot will
result in less power as it will create turbulent air flow through the valve. If in doubt do
not attempt to drill out the pot.

Fig 16 Fig 17
The rifle is now ready to be reassembled.
17. Start by screwing the manifold back into the cylinder tube do this by hand
and ensure that both mating parts are free from dirt. Grease or lubricants must
not be allowed in the inside of the reservoir or on the internal parts that are
under air pressure. Only high pressure lubricants are permissible in tiny
quantities. Molycote 33can help if there is any need for a lubricant. When
fitting any new or used parts make sure there is no lubricant that can get inside.
18. Refit the pressure gauge assembly ensuring both O-Rings are seated
correctly, as per stage 11 (fig. 19) if the seals are not seated correctly the rifle
may lose air pressure.

Fig 18 Fig 19
19. Place the new hammer spring onto the hammer boss and fit the
hammer spring washer (fig. 20)
20. Place the rear assembly over the spring and press the rear
assembly until it buts up against the centre manifold (fig. 21) use
bolt C at the rear of the assembly to clamp the sections together.
21. Ensure the bolt slot in the rear assembly is lined up with the
transfer port in the centre manifold. (fig. 22)

Fig 20 Fig 21 Fig 22

22. Place O-Ring seal B on the transfer port (fig. 23)
23. Replace O-Ring seal D in the barrel support ring (fig. 24) you will
need to use a small pick to remove this seal.
24. Slide the barrel assembly onto the built up cylinder assembly (fig.25)
being careful not to disturb the O-Ring seal on the transfer port the
cocking bolt must be forward in the home position.
Fig. 23
B

Fig 24 Fig 25

D
25. Using bolts C fasten the barrel assembly to the cylinder this should be
done by starting with the 2 centre bolts then opposite corners, nip all down
then in the same sequence tighten firmly do not over tighten. If the bolts
are tight or misaligned this will be because the rear assembly and centre
manifold are not aligned, repeat step 21.
26. Refit the magazine indexing strip, ensure the sliding plate is pushed
across to the left and the bolt is in the home position (fig. 27). Using bolts
B fasten the magazine indexing strip down.

Fig 26 Fig 27

5 1 4

3 2 6
27. Refit the built up action back into the stock and fasten the
bolt(s).
28. To replace the bolt shaft O-Ring seal undue caphead screw (3mm
Allen key) through the centre of the bolt body (fig. 28), this bolt is
extremely tight ensure you are using a high quality allen key to prevent
rounding replace with bolt G when reassembling. Slide the bolt body
off the shaft, this is a pressfit and again is tight. Replace with O-Ring
seal E refit the bolt body onto the shaft and tighten securely

Fig 28

Fig 29
29. To regulate the power of the rifle you need to remove the anti-tamper security torx
bolt (T10) and plastic washer (fig. 30 & 31)
30. Behind the anti-tamper security torx bolt is an M3 grub screw (1.5mm Allen key)
(Grub screw F) when this is screwed in it will restrict the amount of air that can pass
through the transfer port (fig. 32). You will need to fine tune this screw with the pellet
your using and a chronograph to ensure that your rifle does not exceed the legal limit of
12ft. lbs. Do not take this grub screw out as the rifle will be unregulated and will result
in the rifle being over the legal limit and the amount of air that passes through the
transfer will be inconsistent causing erratic accuracy problems.

Fig 30 F Fig 32

Fig 31
 Refilling the Rifle
When refilling the rifle from empty you will need
to cock the action. The pressure from the hammer
spring against the exhaust valve pin will hold the
valve open resulting in the air passing straight
through the valve and out of the end of the barrel.
The rifle relies upon the air pressure built up in the
cylinder (approx 40 Bar) to hold the valve closed,
under this pressure the valve will not seal correctly
and air will leak you need to get the rifle above 50
Bar before the valve will seal correctly.