Well after taking my XD357 to the range a few times I started to realize it may be wise to pick up on of those fancy 9mm conversion barrels. I ordered an EFK unit along with a 18# spring to replace the 24# spring I have in the gun.
The barrel and spring showed up and I attempted to fit the barrel, everything was smooth but I could not get the slide back on. After talking to EFK and checking out a useful doc sent out by them I found out where I needed to remove a bit of material. I took my dial caliper and found every piece was the same spec as my factory barrel except for the the bottom. It was five thousandths bigger then the factory barrel. So over the next few nights I removed the material with a half dozen emery boards. I finally got it close fitted it again everything was nice and happy, but still a bit tight so i decided to do to take a bit more off because it was a bit stiff still. While putting it back together again I also installed the 18# spring, which was slightly different then both of the other springs because it was longer and fully coiled at both ends, I contacted the vendor about this before using it, and he said that it is totally cool to use and he likes them better because they are coiled on both ends.
So i slapped it all together things were nice, the 9mm's were feeding perfectly (though I never fired any, just cycled them through manually.)
So I go to disassemble everything now, lock back the slide, flip the lever up, pull the slide back again, dry fire it, and the slide one come off.... it slides about 1/3 the way and clunks and stops. It will not budge at all.
Anyone have any tips?
I've tried reversing everything, and sitting there for a few min racking the slide, everything seems fine except for last few mm, the slide does not go as far forward after racking it, but when i manually push the slide forward with my thumbs, the cocked indicator comes out the rest of the way and is normal.
I hate breaking things
The barrel and spring showed up and I attempted to fit the barrel, everything was smooth but I could not get the slide back on. After talking to EFK and checking out a useful doc sent out by them I found out where I needed to remove a bit of material. I took my dial caliper and found every piece was the same spec as my factory barrel except for the the bottom. It was five thousandths bigger then the factory barrel. So over the next few nights I removed the material with a half dozen emery boards. I finally got it close fitted it again everything was nice and happy, but still a bit tight so i decided to do to take a bit more off because it was a bit stiff still. While putting it back together again I also installed the 18# spring, which was slightly different then both of the other springs because it was longer and fully coiled at both ends, I contacted the vendor about this before using it, and he said that it is totally cool to use and he likes them better because they are coiled on both ends.
So i slapped it all together things were nice, the 9mm's were feeding perfectly (though I never fired any, just cycled them through manually.)
So I go to disassemble everything now, lock back the slide, flip the lever up, pull the slide back again, dry fire it, and the slide one come off.... it slides about 1/3 the way and clunks and stops. It will not budge at all.
Anyone have any tips?
I've tried reversing everything, and sitting there for a few min racking the slide, everything seems fine except for last few mm, the slide does not go as far forward after racking it, but when i manually push the slide forward with my thumbs, the cocked indicator comes out the rest of the way and is normal.
I hate breaking things