Posted: 12/1/2013 10:42:33 AM EDT
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I have had 7 Glocks, and am now down to 2. I have a Gen 3 M19, and a Gen 4 M22. From what I have read on here about how The Glock was designed, etc. I will tell you my 19 tends to run 6.5-7 pounds on my Timney trigger pull gauge. I have a Ghost Rocket kit for it, which the installation of is driving me crazy!!! I can't get the new part in & the gun back together to save me. I have replaced springs in them, etc. Have been working on guns for almost 44 years. Maybe my heart attacks took some of my finger dexterity, or something, but this thing is giving me fits. The trigger pull is part of the reason I now only have 2 Glocks. I wanted to try the rocket. If someone can point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it. If all you are going to is tell me to leave it stock, I am considering that too, but not yet.
Thanks, Mark |
| I think once you get it in you'll like it. I have a 3.5# Ghost rocket and reduced power Wolf firing pin spring in my gen 2 Glock 17. I like how light the pull is, but it is still slightly mushy compared to my 1911 with a 3.5# trigger. Compared to my stock triggers on my 19 and 26 it is much nicer. |
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Well, I got it together. I did not grind enough off & am going to have to look up how to remove firing pin with gun together. I have an idea, but it probably won't work.
Thanks, Mark PS: I posted this to the one user who tried to encourage me. I am a dues paying member of this site and have been on it for years. I don't know what I am doing wrong, but I get few, if any responses to my few posts. Maybe my nickname turns people off. It is an old joke that I turned around. Maybe I should change it, or drop off the site. My name is Mark as you will notice I sign off all my posts that way. If I change it, it will be someone from the Bible that is little known. Have a good day. |
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I think you're not getting many replies because not many people have that connector. I'm interested to try one, but haven't picked one up yet.
If you didn't grind enough off that tab on the connector to release the striker you can lock the slide back and remove the backplate and striker like you do when disassembling the slide. Then you'll be able to remove the slide from the frame. Or you can get an orange armorers backplate and I believe you can manually push the the trigger bar down to release the striker. |
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To get the firing pin out with the gun together, just lock the slide back and then you can reach the spacer sleeve to press it down and remove the end plate. Then just pull the firing pin out and the slide will come off and you can remove the connector and file off a little of the overtravel tab. It takes a few times and gets tedious, but once you get enough material removed the trigger pull is nice and has a very short reset. Sorry you have had problems, hope this helps.
Oops, Russell beat me to it. |
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The orange armorers plate also allows you to see the sear and firing pin engagement. I would read up on this a bit.
When removing material from the connectors "trigger control tab" TCT, make sure you remove a small amount of material at a time, and use a file or stone making sure it is flat and not skewed. This takes a few times of testing, disassemble, removing material, and repeating. Remember the key here is if you remove too much material you've defeated the purpose of the TCT |
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Took it to the range today. Trigger pull went from 6-7 lbs down to about 4 pounds. Had one time it failed to cock, yet there was a bullet in the chamber. This was with some Bulk 1000 round Remington 9mm I bought before the ammo shortage. It never did it again after that. So I guess it is good to go. Accuracy was good, just like before.
Thanks, Mark |
| Glad you got it up and running. I had my first light primer strike with my Glock 17 this weekend. Happened twice with 2008 vintage Winchester white box 100 rd value pack. I'm using a wolf reduced power firing pin spring, which I was warned could cause light primer strikes with certain ammo. Never had any issues before with the ghost connector/lighter firing pin spring. |
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Put a dab of moly grease on the connector surfaces, particularly where it contacts the striker. Also put some on the bottom of your firing pin block. And if you haven't already, do the 25 cent trigger job.
All of this is easy and pretty much free if you have the stuff on hand like I did. It made a noticeable improvement in the pull on my G34. |