ParaGunner Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 I purchased this Kimber TLE\Rl 2 back in 2005 and it was a great gun for many years. One thing I noticed from the beginning was it was hard to take the slide of because the frame was rubbing the push rod for the series 80. I always made sure I did not depress the grip safety when taking the slide off and on but it still rubbed it. Well through the years I guess it wore the push rod down to the point where it would not fully raise the firing pin block out of the way and fail to fire. I recently called Kimber and they gladly sent me a new push rot for no charge after 5 years! I installed the new push rod and thought it was fixed and went of shooting. I still experienced some ftf at a match to the point where it completely quit firing. What I did not know was the firing pin had been penning itself out from hitting the firing pin block plunger and ceased up in the firing pin hole. I had enough, I removed the rear sight and took the plunger out and filed the penned out portion firing pin back down to it's normal diameter. It has caused more problems than anything else,this gun is now a competition gun only. Oh well, I have other guns to carry. Has any one else had problems with their Kimber series 80s? If so what did you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juan Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 WE HAD THE SAME THING GOING ON WITH A COUSTOM TAC 2 REMOVED THE REAR SIGHT TOOK OUT SPRING AND BLOCK NO PROBLEMS SINCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Dude! Turn down the volume! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atbarr Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Dude! Turn down the volume! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaGunner Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 WE HAD THE SAME THING GOING ON WITH A COUSTOM TAC 2 REMOVED THE REAR SIGHT TOOK OUT SPRING AND BLOCK NO PROBLEMS SINCE Did you check the firing pin for damage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EkuJustice Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 No problem loosing those parts. I remove mine on a series II gun. Simply put a extra power FP spring in and your good to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaGunner Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 No problem loosing those parts. I remove mine on a series II gun. Simply put a extra power FP spring in and your good to go Did you have problems with it or did you just take it out any way? I thought the design with using the grip safety was better than the colt series 80 because it was not tied in with the trigger,but obviously it still creates problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EkuJustice Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 I actually had the part under the rear sight snap in half. With it snapped, its not able to be pushed up out of the way of the FP so the gun would not fire. Just said the heck with it and removed the rest of it and ran it without it. My carry gun is a series 1 so don't have to worry about it. The majority of 1911s wont have the extra safety and never have a problem. Ill take simple every time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaGunner Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 Wow! I'm suprised the plunger broke,that's suprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twodownzero Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 This is one of the rare times when all you need to do is remove parts, and not replace them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan 45 Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 I have an early Eclipse II that also broke the junk under the rear sight. This was about 7 years ago, after only a couple hundred rounds through the gun. I sent it back to Kimber and they replaced the broken junk with unbroken junk. I rarely shoot this gun, so I haven't bothered to clean up the junk. I have a TLE II that I shoot a lot. It was a simple process to knock the rear sight out and dump the junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaGunner Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 This is one of the rare times when all you need to do is remove parts, and not replace them. I couldn't agree more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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