Afraid to detail strip my 1911...Please Help!!!

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I just picked up my Springfield Champion. The mainspring housing i bought from
Ed Brown didn't go in as easy as it should have and in the process, I bent the middle tooth of the sear spring and managed to mess up the trigger to where it
didn't want to fire.

I'm afraid that I might break something or mess something up if I attempt to fully detail strip my gun and then put it back together. Anybody have and similar stories or ideas to help out? Thanks, BIG BLUE
 
Make sure the sear spring looks like this when you slide the MSH up to hold it before you put the GS back in.

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image from realguns.com
 
Detail Strip

Howdy Devil,


Your mistake is a common one...so you're in good company. The reason that your pistol won't fire is that the disconnector isn't resetting. The
middle leg of the sear spring does that. If it has a kink in it...it's been taken past its elastic limit, and trying to straighten it will probably snap it off.

TIP: To change out a mainspring housing without having to remove the
grip safety, wrap a heavy rubber band around it to keep it depressed
and keep the sear spring in place.

Check your PMs

Tuner
 
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Thanks to 1911Tuner, I had a short trigger sitting on my desk that needed to go into my Colt. So I just went to m1911.org and followed the detail strip instructions. Getting it apart was very easy. The only hitch was when I was putting it back together, it was tough lining up the sear parts to push the pin back in. Everything went together fine and it works like a charm.
 
Sear Pin Alignment

Dan said:

. The only hitch was when I was putting it back together, it was tough lining up the sear parts to push the pin back in.

Howdy Dan,

Next time, get the sear and disconnect in as a unit. Line the disconnector paddle up pretty flush with the bottom of the trigger stirrup. Roll the gun from vertical to horizontal with the left side facing up while holding the
disconnect with the tip of your finger. Look through the sear pin hole and
slowly pull the trigger just a bit. You should see the holes line up, or nearly so. If you have an AR-15 firing pin, use it for an alignment tool. If
your hammer strut is truly ordnance-spec, you can use that. Check to see if it go through the holes in the frame. If it will, that's your sear/disconnect
slave pin. If it won't, find a drill rod that will fit. It doesn't have to be an
excact fit. The AR-15/M-16 firing pin is an ideal armorer's tool for the 1911...
and it doesn't appear to be an accident. Stoner was pretty sharp too.

Luck!

Tuner
 
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