5# Wollf spring installed

[tilefish]

Installed last night. It is quite nice, the difference is noticeable. Gonna hit the range on Tuesday. I hope.

[TheTman]

Let us know how how you like it and how much it helps with your accuracy.

[tilefish]

Let us know how how you like it and how much it helps with your accuracy.

Will do. It is definitely a smoother, lighter pull from what I can tell right now.

[Bawanna]

Did you have any parts left over or things that flew away that you couldn't find?

I hate it when I do something like that and find a little piece a few days later on the floor and go uh oh, where did that come from.

[CJB]

While your looking for things that flew away... let me know if you find a mens grey sweatsock, its been missing from my drier for a while.

[tilefish]

Did you have any parts left over or things that flew away that you couldn't find?

I hate it when I do something like that and find a little piece a few days later on the floor and go uh oh, where did that come from.

Lol, no. But I know exactly what you are talking about. The other day I had my XD apart for a thorough cleaning and I removed the chambered round indicator for the first time. Upon re-installation, the tiny little spring got away from me under tension. Took me a good ten minutes to find it even though I knew about where it landed. I am a tinkerer at heart so I am usually pretty good at not screwing things up.

[jdr3366]

Sorry for this basic question, but did you replace the recoil spring of firing pin spring?

[tilefish]

Sorry for this basic question, but did you replace the recoil spring of firing pin spring?



The firing pin spring.

[Bawanna]

Sorry for this basic question, but did you replace the recoil spring of firing pin spring?



Referring to the striker/firing pin spring. Don't listen to me, it's really not difficult to swap and it does seem to help the trigger pull even though it's pretty darn nice right out of the box.

Unlike Tilefish who is good at not screwing stuff up, it's almost a forte for me. I guess everyone has to have one, mine is screwing stuff up. But it don't stop me from trying to do stuff and once in awhile I do ok.

[tilefish]

To supplement the detail strip guide post in the tech section, I found a video on youtube demonstrating the procedure. Its fairly simple once you get the hang of it. Takes me less than a minute to have it apart. Some people do dry fire practice, I take my guns apart and clean them lol.
I have had my bi-tone XD9 for well over a year now and put many thousands of rounds through it. You would be hard pressed to differentiate it from a NIB XD. The only give-away would be the firing pin retaining roll-pin.

[OldLincoln]

Even worse is that the spring from a ball point pin won't work as a replacement spring! So keep looking.

[Blue150]

While your looking for things that flew away... let me know if you find a mens grey sweatsock, its been missing from my drier for a while.

Look in the closet and see if you have an extra wire hangar. I've come to the conclusion that my dryer is a transmutation/teleportation device that converts socks in the laundry room to hangars in the closet.

[jocko]

IMO just all the more reason to not do alot of essing aruond in taking the slide down alot. Little things dissappear ad then ur fokked. IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT. Tinker when tinkering is needed. Just sayin.

[kerby9mm]

What the heck # spring is in there to begin with?

[downtownv]

Where did you purchase the spring? What is the rating of the OEM spring?
Is there ant advantage to changing the recoil spring?
Thinking of the wires cw9.....

[AIRret]

When should you change the firing pin spring?

[Bawanna]

I'm not sure it ever needs changing myself. I got no solid information to back that up though. They are cheap and pretty easy to change.
I'm not big on changing recoil springs until there's an issue either, probably bad policy on my part but so far it's working ok.

[OldLincoln]

You get a new striker spring with your new recoil spring so why not change it then? That way you can inspect the striker and channel for debris. Some may never change it but I like to inspect.

It's like when I was a crew chief in the Air Force. We inspected the dickens out of everything and most never did have a defect of any kind. The rational was the consequences of failure were too great to afford the risk.