Nova N4 Odin Disassembly

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And now for the teardown of a perfectly functional marker:

The Nova N4 Odin:
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Please not my Odin has a Bob Long locking feedneck replacing the stock feedneck. This is the marker came to me.

Step 1 remove the front hand guard:

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And as you can see, this piece is needed due to the design of the N4. There is o-ring those keeps the hand guard tight. Nova does make a smaller piece to replace the large hand guard, if one really didn’t like the design.

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Then we can remove the grip frame, undoing the two screws and sliding the fair fitting from the main body. Those fits in firmly, so you may need to pull a little to separate the body front the frame, but the air line should stay with the frame.

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And here’s another view of the bottom of the body:

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And a look at the firing mechanism. The trigger pushes this rod at the back of the body and triggers the firing sequence.

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Now we can pop off the feedneck, as you do need to remove it to disassemble the marker. My Bob Long clamping feedneck just clamps into the stock feedneck insert:

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Now the large body piece is simply a tub that holds the front and rear internals. By removing the two short bolts you can slide the front and rear portion of the marker out of the main body tube:

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And here is the rear portion, including the bolt assembly:

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And the front section:
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Here is the front chamber with detent. Using a standard Tippmann detent:

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And this is the main body tube:
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Moving back to the business end, there are two small
grub screws in the rear of the body. These hold a pin the firing pin is held in place by. Removed one and the pin will fall out:

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Next step is remove the two bolts located on the rear of the marker at the nameplate:

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Inside the main valve portion can be removed:

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And finally there’s a pin in the rear portion that can come out as well:

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And now I realize I missed going over the trigger frame!

Here’s the trigger frame with its internal air line:

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And the top view of the trigger frame with the trigger plate installed:
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And without it installed:

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And a good view of the trigger plate itself:

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This is the standard trigger and not the optional upgrade.

I have modified the trigger slightly, adding some spacers to take up slack. Early reviewers mentioned how the trigger slop really bothered them, so I preemptively did this. Can’t say if it made things better or not though! But hey, performance improvements were never a requirement paintball mod.

So for the trigger modification. I took some of the foam sheet that shipped with the marker and uncut it to fit the bottom of the trigger frame and on the top of the trigger plate itself. The moment is still very smooth, but it cuts out some of the play.

[MullerTime]

Cool! I just bought a used one of these that I will need to go through and lube up. Thanks for the write up!

[Jsc5150]

There is really just one detent?

Was getting some double feeds with my rotor and figured I was missing a detent when I looked down the breech

[Myrkul]

I think the 4.1 has dual detents, the original N4 only has one. Maybe someone with more experience with the 4.1 can chime in?

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Yes, for the original N4. No idea on the 4.1, haven’t gotten to manhandle one yet.

Did you check your detent? Those Tippman-style detents like to crumble and cause feed issues.