How to Install a Tippmann Model 98 Paintball Gun Vertical Adapter

Tippmann did not design an easy way to attach a regulator or expansion chamber to their model 98 paintball gun. In order to attach either of these devices you need to install a vertical adapter. Installing a vertical adapter may sound tricky but actually will go in very easily.

Things You'll Need

  • Vertical adapter
  • Tippmann model 98 paintball gun
  • Standard allen wrench set
  • Pipe sealing tape
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Instructions

    • 1

      Purchase a vertical adapter kit for your Tippmann model 98 paintball gun.

    • 2

      Remove all air sources and paintballs from the gun.

    • 3

      Take off the hopper and elbow as well as the barrel.

    • 4

      Hold the cocking knob and pull the trigger. Allow the knob to slide forward slowly to un-cock the gun.

    • 5

      Use an allen wrench to remove the two screws on the bottom of the gun holding the ASA in place.

    • 6

      Unscrew the two grip screws holding the left grip and then remove the six body screws. This will allow the two body halves to slide apart.

    • 7

      Notice the two screws in the middle of the right body half near where the valve is, remove these two screws then pull the valve out from the body.

    • 8

      Unhook the braided stainless steel line from the valve using a wrench.

    • 9

      Wrap pipe sealing tape around the vertical adapters connection and screw it into the valve.

    • 10

      Place the valve with the vertical adapter connected to it into the gun, and replace the two screws that hold the valve in place.

    • 11

      Close the marker in the reverse order it was disassembled.