So... I recently purchased a SD9VE as a project. I have no experience so I figured I start with this gun. I purchased a Galloway Precision trigger kit, and a Apex spring kit. After watching YouTube I found a video that walked me through the process of changing the parts out. It went fairly smoothly I thought. But now the slide won't come off and the gun won't fire. What do I do? It will cycle bullets through, and when dry firing seems ok, but at the range it will not fire. How do I get the slide off to start over??
HELP!!!
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gwpercle
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I see you are learning how to become a gunsmith the same way I did. The school of hard knocks is a tough teacher. We didn't have that wonderful fountain of knowledge ..You Tube ... we did have a local gun shop . I would put all the parts in a shoe box , bring them in and watch the owner smile as he asked..." What have you taken apart today ? " He would then take me back to his bench and re assemble it correctly explaining every step . Not being a naturally gifted mechanically inclined person ... he advised me to not take them apart and to stop trying to "fix" them...all I was doing was screwing good firearms up.
Is there a local " Gunsmith " you could seek guidance from ?
This is my best advice.
Gary
Is there a local " Gunsmith " you could seek guidance from ?
This is my best advice.
Gary
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I recently got a SD9 slide for my VE and came across the same issue. The guide rods on these are weird and do this when they are off a slight bit on reassembly. The Glock like controls on this gun seem to be harder to use than my actual Glocks and the Taurus G2(C) making me want to install the extended controls. For 1 of my gen 3 (6906), I had to lock the slide to the rear and hand twist the guide rod for it to go right. If it's like building a Glock 80%, you can lock the slide to the rear and remove the back plate of the slide off and it should come off extreme worse case.
1st gun I came across that made you tear it apart repeatedly was my Sccy CPX2. After that i dived head in on Glock 80% build and modding my striker fired guns. The sear spring did get me and I had to YT it, same time the trigger spring is a bit of a learning curve. One video shows you knock the pin from left to right and doing so make it super hard to get the trigger spring to not get caught in the cut outs for the slide lock on reassembly. Knowing to replace the pins from left to right would have saved me tons of time. I did the trigger and all the springs pretty much. Now I got a black SD9 slide I have to go back and do it again and push the sights off again.
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Mag out, pull trigger and push down release tabs while pushing slide forward. If that does not work, be sure slide and frame are positioned equal at the rear and pull trigger / tabs down and push forward. There are several possible problems but betting trigger bar was not positioned on side of sear, but rather inside of sear which is incorrect. Now, with slide back you can release sear from under but you have to tinker with it.
