My G19 practice gun went down today. I noticed a strangely shaped chunk of metal on the floor of booth 4 at the NRA Range after my session. It turned out to be the take-down lever for my pistol. I have no idea how I got through the session with no take-down lever, but there it was. I took the slide off and the spring, or leaf spring, that holds the take-down lever in place was gone. No idea where it went.
So, I’ve ordered the parts - but despite my strongest Google-fu and GlockFAQ mauy thai, I can’t find an online instruction for replacing the spring.
Long time ago (1991) I was shooting my G19 when I noticed something sticking out the left side of the gun. It was the pin that holds the trigger. I pushed it back in and keep shooting. After another 8-9 shots it fell out but the gun continued to run.
I had a local smith push in a new pin and several years later I took it to Glock and they replaced the pin and springs for me at no charge. I have had the same G19 since 1990 with no other problems.
To answer your question-
I have not replaced one myself (yet) but from looking into my 19 just now this is the best that I can come up with.
With the slide off looking down into the frame place the sping into the into the slot/hole in the same direction as shown in the pic. You will need to use a small punch or pin to hold the end of the spring that is exposed down (there is a small notch for this) and then slide the release bar back into the frame.
I know someone that had that same thing happen. I wonder how long it’ll be before he posts in this thread.
Evidently this is a part that has to be removed to install a Lasermax system, so they have a pretty good pictorial instruction for removing and replacing that spring.
If your talking about the flat spring that holds up the take down lever, there was a message put out by glock a couple years ago (LE/GOV) to replace the g19 ones. The old ones have a thinner tapered top, the new ones are the same thickness all the way.
I had 30%+ break at the 3yr point, mediocre rd count. New springs, no worries.
Well I don’t know subzero but it happened to me with my G 29. The darn spring broke and was quite difficult to get out of the frame. It too shoot with no issue until i noticed it.
I replace this ‘slide lock spring’ as normal PM piece on my own Glocks. They’re about $3ea (retail), I replace them every 10K rounds on full size guns and 5K rounds on compact and subcompact Glocks.
You may need to get a small set of needle nose pliers to get the piece out of the frame.
Dano is correct. If you compared the old slide lock springs to a new one you’d see there’s a pretty big difference between them. I believe the old one is .049" in the center, widening to .093" on the ends whereas the new one is .095" from end to end.
I had this happen to my Gen 3 G19 at about 2000 rds. I called Glock and they sent me a new slide lock and spring for free. Replacement took all of 30 seconds. It was the “old” spring and I had herd of this happening and was “almost” expecting it. That does not mean it didn’t piss me off though.
I bought my G19 used…(2nd gen)…I replaced every spring in the gun when I bought it.
I didn’t use anything but a pocketknife and the “Glock Punch” to do it…you should be able to figure it out just by looking at it. I think I pulled the old one out with a knife tip, then placed the new one in place with my fingers…then you just have to hold it down while you slide the slide-stop back into place.
Gotta love working on glocks! Makes you feel like you actually know something!
The parts finallly arrived. I ordered them at TopGlock but they never filled or sent the order. So I re-ordered with Brownells and they were here in four days including New Year’s.
Dano - correct, it was the old style spring.
G19 users, I think it is worth noting that the pistol is a three-pin model so although fairly recently made it still had the old spring. If you have one you might want to check the spring and perhaps replace it.
Old Blasty went off track again today. I started getting light primer strikes - tap rack bang and I could reload the rounds get them to fire.
I thought it was either the recoil spring, trigger spring or the firing pin spring.
I was wrong - when I detail stripped the slide I found that the firing pin spacer, part 6 in the schematic above, was cracked and slightly bent. However, I did go ahead and replace the springs since I had it apart.
So there’s another part you might want to add to your periodic maintenance schedule.
