Hammer Spring too long?

[moto727]

I just tried installing a 15lb hammer spring and now I cant cock the hammer or pull the slide all the way back, the hammer does cock and fall if i pull the trigger. I reinstalled the factory spring and all the problems went away. Whats the problem? The gun is a .40 cal stock 2. I did notice that the new spring was alittle bit longer.

[bikerburgess]

you are probably right the spring may be going to coil bind before it gets fully cocked. I had this happen with a 18 lb spring I was putting in a 10mm I cut off a coil and all was fixed.

Mike

[ck1]

I ordered like 4 different springs last summer from Wolff for an Elite Match (same spring) and every single one that showed up was too long, they would have the hammer dragging on the bottom of the slide while racking the gun with with the hammer back... I must've took the thing a part 10 times trying to figure it out (and it did the same stuff you describe a couple times when I really pushed the suckers onto the hammer spring post/strut causing a bind).

Finally, after comparing it to the stock spring's length and seeing that the new ones where too long, I just clipped off a couple coils and it worked perfect from then on, BUT, FWIW, don't get to clip-happy or lightness-greedy and clip down from a 16lb or at least a 15lb or you'll just end up running into light strikes unless you're also using one of Henning's Xl firing-pins.

Good luck.

[tanfogliocoe]

I just had the exact same issue with a 15lb hammer spring that I ordered from Henning. There definately is a issue there. I will email wolfe to see if they know of any known issues.

[moto727]

Finally, after comparing it to the stock spring's length and seeing that the new ones where too long, I just clipped off a couple coils and it worked perfect from then on, BUT, FWIW, don't get to clip-happy or lightness-greedy and clip down from a 16lb or at least a 15lb or you'll just end up running into light strikes unless you're also using one of Henning's Xl firing-pins.

Good luck.

Thats what I ended up doing and it works fine now