Handguns, Rifles & Shotguns > Handguns
Glock (or Kilo Lima) Trigger Issue After Reassembly
OnTheFly:
I know we have a lot of Glock owners/experts here so I am going to ask my question from the perspective of Glock maintenance since my superior Kilo Lima is nearly identical in function.
I reassembled my pistol after doing the $0.25 trigger job and it appeared to go back together normally. I dry fired it several times and it all seemed ok, though the trigger did not seem improved. This was a disappointment after my efforts. Then I shot the matches Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. At the last match I noticed that the trigger was incredibly (maybe not so much if I were a NY LEO) hard to pull. It would lighten up for a few trigger pulls, but then return to a heavy pull. It fired & functioned fine. Just the trigger was F'd up.
So now I'm thinking to myself "Self, you are in SO much trouble when Chris Z. finds out because he will scold you and say 'Don't F with a Glock'". Though my gun is the Kilo Lima, I'm sure he would have the same stern advice.
So tonight, in an effort to determine the problem before Chris Z. finds out, I stripped the gun down to the trigger components. I looked it over and found nothing that looked unusual. I read a Glock owner's similar problems with a G19 and looked at the item suggested, but it all looked good. Put the gun back together, and the only thing I noticed is that the pins seemed to slide in easier than the last time I reassembled it.
Now the trigger is working great and feels like the $0.25 trigger job improvement that I was looking for.
Does anyone have a guess what I could have done wrong in the assembly or any other ideas WTF was going on?
Fly
Chris Z:
I'm guessing you put the trigger spring in backwards...... It should look like a "S" going in. If it looks like a "Z" it will bind up
PS- I won't tell Chris Z.
Nothing wrong with a $0.25 trigger job. Just don't put any crappy aftermarket parts in the gun, ESPECIALLY lighter springs and the gun will still work great :-)
JTH:
--- Quote from: Chris Z on December 24, 2014, 07:13:56 AM ---I'm guessing you put the trigger spring in backwards...... It should look like a "S" going in. If it looks like a "Z" it will bind up
--- End quote ---
That's exactly what I was going to say.
--- Quote ---[Nothing wrong with a $0.25 trigger job. Just don't put any crappy aftermarket parts in the gun, ESPECIALLY lighter springs and the gun will still work great :-)
--- End quote ---
No, no----Greg should put in LOTS of aftermarket parts in an attempt to get the lightest possible trigger pull. And a 9-pound recoil spring.
He is competing against the rest of us, after all. >:D
OnTheFly:
--- Quote from: Chris Z on December 24, 2014, 07:13:56 AM ---I'm guessing you put the trigger spring in backwards...... It should look like a "S" going in. If it looks like a "Z" it will bind up
--- End quote ---
That is the suggestion I read elsewhere. So I pulled the pins, removed the trigger assembly (trigger, trigger bar, housing, etc.) and looked it over paying special attention to the trigger spring. I disconnected the trigger spring from the trigger bar and reinstalled. I thought I put it back together the same way as I found it. However, the fact that the trigger now works normally tells me that I must have put it together incorrectly after my trigger work.
Fly
OnTheFly:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on December 24, 2014, 09:31:00 AM ---No, no----Greg should put in LOTS of aftermarket parts in an attempt to get the lightest possible trigger pull. And a 9-pound recoil spring.
He is competing against the rest of us, after all.
--- End quote ---
See...It's comments like this that make me realize I am recognized as a threat. I may be scoring mediocre now, but jthhapkido is obviously acknowledging that my current pace of improvement puts me on schedule to be a REAL threat by the time I'm 80.
Fly
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version