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1911 Government model update. A few months back I did a full disassembly and re-spring with Wolf springs. This is my first series 80 1911 and I had a few extra parts that I didn't know where they went. It took a couple of tries and multiple Youtube videos to figure out what I was doing wrong. The first visit back to the range I had feed issues, stovepipes, and the hammer not locking back problems. I put most of the old springs back into the gun and I cleaned everything up except for the stovepipes. I had enough and carried it to a gunsmith with my extra Wolf springs. After 2 months he had me come pick it up. No charge, as he was unable to fix the hammer no locking back with the "new" Wilson Combat spring set that he had installed. He recommended sending it back to Colt.
Last Thursday I spent some time with Colt customer service on the phone. The issue is the sear spring for a 9mm is a tad smaller than the sear spring for a 45 ACP. Both Wolf and Wilson Combat sell only 45ACP sear springs in their spring sets. The 45 ACP sear spring will fit and cause all of the problems I have been having. I got a Colt sear spring in today and swapped it out. The hammer is locking and it is manually cycling without any issues. I have range time scheduled for Thursday
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Tony
NE ATL
'04 XLT regular cab 3.slo stepside
Semi retirement
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