Glock Guide Rods??

[NMshooter]

After tens of thousands of rounds through a variety of pistols I have seen a factory plastic guide rod fail exactly once: A USAF Combat Arms instructor who had never handled a Glock before wanted to shoot mine, and afterwards wanted to learn how to field strip and reassemble it. After I showed him how to do that he then did it himself. Upon reassembly as he racked the slide I noticed something fly out the front of the pistol. He had installed the captive guide rod and spring backwards.

So do not install the guide rod backwards and you will be good to go.

 

[Island Beretta]

..dont mean to prolong, but I knew people who got the first set of Glocks, (1st generation) back when Glocks were a mystery and there was all these rumours swirling about them and they had in black metal guide rods..

Also my plastic rod developed a chip on the head of the rod and I changed it. It appears as if this part will occassionally jump out of the half-crescent notch.. I bought a wolff non-captive rod and haven't had a problem since in addition the guns cycles smoother and I don't hear the recoil spring creaking when the slide is cycling..

 

[made2cut]

"The only aftermarket guide rod that I've heard bad things about is the Glockmeister captured stainless."

Great.... I just picked one of these up for my G30. Rockstar, can you elaborate on what kind of problems the Glockmeister rods were having or point me to that info?

 

[wwsnyder]

I have been thinking about a metal guide rod for my Walther P99 (.40). They appear to be very similar to Glock types. There are no direct replacements like the Wolff type. There are some expensive recoil assemblies available but I'm not really interested in them. In the P99, the guide rod often develops a bend which seems to rub on the inner part of the spring. The stock P99 guide rod is 3.1 inches or 78-79 mm. Is this close to any stock Glock rods?

 

[Rockstar]

made2: Several posts on Glocktalk about the Glockmeister rods' failing. I use the Wolff non-captured on both my G26 and G30. You can probably find more info by doing a search on Glocktalk.

 

[made2cut]

Thanks!