Took apart a Remington 1100 for a clean and oil. Reassembled and when the action is locked open I can hear the Piston seal and piston slide on the Mag tube. I have it together, first the piston seal with the taper end toward the piston with the piston taper fitting in the piston seal, and then the o-ring. Bob says to put the splits in the piston and piston seal 180 from each other, if they are sliding are they going to stay 180 off each other? Or did I miss something here? It feeds extracts and ejects great. It’s almost brand new and I didn’t notice if they were sliding before I took it apart.
They will slide on the mag tube. They will spin some as well but you don’t want to reassemble them with the splits lined up as they are more likely to stay lined up and that is bad. They might not have slid on the mag tube when dirty as the carbon build up makes them drag. It sounds like you have them assembled correctly.
