EDIT: Should have eaten lunch first lol. After reading more I’m pretty sure I janked up reassembly. I was in a bit of a hurry. I now have the original recoil spring in and it’s working just fine. I get kind of OCD about this stuff. I’ve been carrying this gun for a couple of years and I’ve never had this issue. I guess there’s always more to learn!
So I read some people have issues with a certain model of 43x/ 48 recoil springs and that the old part number is 101 and the new part number is 111. My recoil spring was acting kind of funny so I pulled it out and put it back in. Was surprised this happened.
SOOOO guys on Glock talk are saying this happens when you screw up reassembly. So Chances are it was me… haven’t had this issue ever and I’ve used this gun for years.
It’s not backwards though. That’s the black rubber piece in the front. Weird occurrence but apparently it’s a thing. I don’t think it was seated right in the slide opening and ended up crooked. It was word, racked the slide at assembly and it popped out like that.
I reassembled it and all is normal. But it was not backwards.
You’re right, I just checked all 3 of my glocks, I know I’ve had that happen before a few times. I thought it was backwards, but it’s something else for sure
It was difficult to get off. Slide wouldn’t give either direction. I moved the rod in front and it flew back in place. I disassembled and reassembled after no issue.
I recall this may have happened to me on an M&P years ago, but that was years ago and can’t be certain.
My hypothesis is the base of the RSA was slipped the barrel lug area and was wedged sideways
Edit: I bet it got caught here which caused it to push out funky
This keeps happening, yet another Glock story connected to firearms, I guess, just maybe Glocks are in fact firearms and not toy guns. LOL, relax, this has been a long time running joke in which I have always placed Glocks in toy boxes. True friends never let friends Glock.
Decided to go ahead and throw the new part on. I’m sure it was placebo, but it felt better to me than the previous one. Ran flawlessly at the range too.
I cleaned my 43x every 150 rounds, and exchanged the recoil spring at 5000 rounds. (So, 33 removals and reinsertions of the first recoil spring over a couple of years.) I have not seen this issue on either the first or second recoil spring. I can see how it might happen if you didn’t get both sides of the slide in the rail channels when reinstalling.
. Should have eaten lunch before playing cowboy.
