Glock 17L or 34 Pic request

General Firearms Handguns - Semi Auto
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If anyone has a Glock 17L or a G34, can you take me a picture of the slide where the recoil rod mates to the slide? I’ve got an aftermarket slide that only seems to be supported about 50-60% and the recoil rod is popping free of the aftermarket pocket and dragging on the bottom side of the barrel.

A picture of a stock 17L slide at that area to compare might help me solve the issue.

Here’s the issue:

I bought a Lonewolf 17L slide and I’m having an issue with the recoil rod hitting the inside front of the slide and the spring dragging on the barrel. Its obvious even when hand cycling that this isn’t going to run as it binds/drags something fierce.

Anyhow, pic is worth a thousand words as they say:

Did I just get a bad slide? Is this “normal”. I’ve called Lonewolf and they’re swamped with SHOT coming up, so I figured I’d see if anyone here had any ideas.

Any help is appreciated!!

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I don’t have pic, but I just pulled the slide off my G34. The recoil spring lug looks very similar to what you are showing. It supports the end of the spring for 60% or so of it’s circumference. However, the end of the rod does not show any damage, and it is not canted.

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Is it very ‘deep’? Over on TOS, we are discussing the fact that it might not be deep enough ‘forward’ to keep it from slipping out. On the LoneWolf, the pocket is .037ths deep, on the Caspian (for comparison) its .082. Interesting.

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I’ll bust out the calipers and check it out tonight after work.

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Thanks man… Appreciate the assist.

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Ok, sorry it took so long. On my G34 (which is about 6 months old or so) the pocket is about 0.035-0.036.

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I think I figured it out. The LWD doesn’t support the recoil rod nearly as well as the Glock does.

Slide is gonna have to go back to LWD now.