6 inch guide rod break down and assembly?

[Collecting A's]

How do you break down a 6 inch gun (guide rod) with a bull barrel (no bushing)?

[kmca]

1. Lock slide back

2. Put a bent paperclip or something similar into the hole in the guide rod

3. release and remove slide stop

4. remove spring/guide rod from aft end of slide assembly

5. put guide rod/spring/recoil plug into a hole to compress spring, and remove paperclip.

HINT: The Brownell's bench block hole center hole is the one to use.

Edited December 3, 2010 by kmca

[Collecting A's]

Because this is a 6 inch, there does not seem to be enough clearance for the guide rod to come out the same way a 5 inch gun does.

[Dan Sierpina]

Because this is a 6 inch, there does not seem to be enough clearance for the guide rod to come out the same way a 5 inch gun does.

There isn't. You need a 2 piece rod, or a 6" that's been chopped on the recoil spring tunnel.

[Collecting A's]

So you have to unscrew the guide rod if you want to disassemble the gun.

Do you use a loctite to keep it from unscrewing?

Anyone have pictures of a tunnel that has been modified to allow disassembly without unscrewing the guide rod?

[Wild Gene]

That does not sound right. Have you checked you tube?

[Aircooled6racer]

Hello: On my 2 6" STI 2011's I built I just unscrew the guide rod and take it apart. One is a bull barrel and the other a bushing barrel. I don't use any LocTite on the threads but tighten the guide rod after it is assembled. It has never come loose. Thanks, Eric

[Sean Gaines]

Yes, I put some blue loctite in mine just to keep it from coming out. Yeah its kind of PITA to take a part and put together, but I knew that going in, I clean my gun every 2k rounds, so its not like I am doing it all the time.

Here is a picture, forgive the dirty gun

[Joe4d]

1. Lock slide back

2. Put a bent paperclip or something similar into the hole in the guide rod

3. release and remove slide stop

4. remove spring/guide rod from aft end of slide assembly

5. put guide rod/spring/recoil plug into a hole to compress spring, and remove paperclip.

HINT: The Brownell's bench block hole center hole is the one to use.

That doesnt work on the factory sti eagle bull barrel setup and I dont think there is a hole. you cant get the guide rod and plug in even with no spring.

You have to unscrew the 2 piece guide rod which basically sucks cause if it is loose enough to get unscrewed it is loose enough to come unscrewed while shooting.

Here is what I did to my eagle and I love it.

1. take two piece guide rod and throw it as far as you can, preferably somewhere it will never again see the light of day.

2. buy a full length for 5" STI guide rod cut it to 2 and 7/8ths of an inch, round off the end a bit,

3 buy wolff for longslide 1911 spring number 4 for major, number 5 for minor, cut spring to 37 coils,

4. put gun back together like a traditional gi spec guide rod assembly and throw away the paper clips and allen wrenches and loctite in the same direction as the two piece guide rod.

Enjoy gun, you can now get it apart and back together in the safe area with out breaking out a Snap-on tool collection.