Thread: Winchester model 70 3 position safety problem

Ok so I'm trying to fix up an old Model 70 and the safety gets stuck in the fire position and won't come back out without some swearing and levering with...levers.

While the firing pin assembly is out of the bolt body, it will easily go through safe and half safe(?) But when it goes to the fire position, the pin goes forwards. It's easy enough to get it back to safe while its out of the bolt body.

However, when the bolt is all back together, the safety will go into safe and half safe just fine but as soon as it goes into fire position, it won't come back out again even if the bolt is cocked.

A bit of background for the rifle, it also had an extraction problem, well a lack of extraction which I have sorted.

Any ideas on the safety mechanism? Remove the bolt shroud and see what's going on?