HELP!-Elite Match safety pin replacement

[walrus108]

First off I'm new here. I just have been using this forum for info for the past few weeks while I was trying to buy my first Witness ever! So hello to everyone.

I have just bought a Witness Elite match 10mm. It is NOS but was heavily oiled from the factory (I assume). I field striped it in order to remove all that oil lube and replace it with slide-glide. I went one step further and removed the safety pin and sear block to clean contact surfaces and under it. I disassembled it this far once the night I got it home and was able to easily replace the sear, safety pin, reassemble, and everything was perfect. Well this time, I can't get that pin back in. It's like it's stuck. I can push that plunger on the safety pin in but the pin won't seat through to the other side of the slide. I can get it to the point where the spring loaded plunger touches the frame, can push that plunger into the pin, but that safety just won't go all the way home. I'm at my wits end trying to get this thing back together so I can shoot it! It must be binding somewhere or or there's a trick that I don't know.

Is there a trick to replacing that safety lever? Could something in the sear block have moved that will not let it go all the way through? The only difference between the first time when I had zero problems getting it back together and now is that I adjusted the allen screws to take the take-up and over travel out of the trigger. Maybe that changed something that is putting a bind on it? The trigger bar seems to be pushing up on the sear now. i don't remember it doing that before, but I could be mistaken.

Can anybody tell me what i may be doing wrong? Has anybody had these out and replaced them before who can tell me how it supposed to be done?

If I can't figure this out myself, I'm going to try to find a gunsmith who can get this done for me. Any possibility you can refer me to someone in the central Texas area who knows these guns?

Any help to get me actually shooting this fine firearm would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[mrfreeze]

Not sure I can be of service to you, but couldn't stand the 0 replies.

I am having trouble envisioning it, could be me.

Have you been over to Henningshootsguns.com to check out the tech section.

Also maybe post this under the factory pistol section?

Usually when I play this game it is something obvious I have overlooked. I Disassemble and/or take a break and go back to square one.

Hopefully, someone else will chime in with an obvious solution for you.

[photog]

I think I know what your issue is, I think the trigger bar is hanging up a little.

When you reinstall the trigger and trigger bar, there is a little up and down movement that must be done to align the whole system.. It could have been that when you moved the pretravel screw, the alignment got a little off.

When getting the safety back in , I wiggle it a bit, and it snaps right back in, but if the sear assembly is not positioned right, it will never go back in.. Keep at it, It will go back together, but it takes some wigglin of the trigger bar to allow the sear to fit all the way into the frame. Once the sear is back in, you have to hold it down with your thumb while you put the safety back in.

[walrus108]

Thanks guys. I got it fixed with much help from Henning. If someone else has this happen, the problem was that the spring loaded plunger was in the wrong position. There are two notches that the plunger has to be lined up with. I was trying to push it in with the plunger in the middle position in which the plunger isn't able to go in far enough.

Henning's shop helped me out totally and thanks to me getting myself into trouble, and him helping me out of it, I know know my new gun better than most. This guy took the time to fully answer my questions and explain everything in detail. I can't thank him enough. Great company that has fully earned my loyalty for as much Tanfoglio items I can buy from him. If you need anything for your Witness, I suggest you patronize him.