Posted: 7/19/2006 5:20:08 PM EDT
I was out shooting my Kimber TLE / RL II when I started to have mis-feed problems. Stove piping to be exact. After the second FTF I unloaded and inspected to see what was wrong, but I found nothing obvious. I went back to shooting and right off the bat it happened again. As I got to playing with the slide I noticed a stickey spot at the slides rearmost travel. The slide got stiff and allmost wouldnt open all the way. I got some CLP out and dribbled a little in each slide rail, but it didnt help. When I put some CLP on the one piece guide rod the problem vanished almost instantly. I thought I had oiled that guide rod fairly well when I cleaned it, but if it was binding there I must be missing something on the lube routine for that rod as it only got about 30 rounds through it since I cleaned it. Are these rods always that fussy? I cant recall having a feed failure based on a guide rod before. Whats the SOP for lubing 1911 guide rods? what do you use and how much, how often? where am I screwing up
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| From what you have stated, I doubt it was a lack of lube that caused your problem. I have seen one Kimber Warrior that had a guide rod that was not properly fit to the slide. This guide rod, stock traditional GI style from Kimber, would cause some light binding during the last portion of the slides cycle. The binding was not noticeable while shooting the gun and never caused a malfunction, but was noticeable during hand-cycling of the slide. Not sure if the Slide was out of spec or the guide rod, but the problem was fixed when the guide rod was replaced. With this particular Kimber the problem was how the parts fit (or didn't fit, if you you want to be technical) and not a lack of cleaning/lube. This maybe your TLE's problem. Guide rods are cheap. Try a different one and see if the problem goes away. |
| I use grease on the recoil spring. Never had a problem. Parts may just be ill fit. I bought a EGW tungsten guide ron for a Springfield HighCap 45. That lasted for 3 rounds. On the 4th I had two holes in target one from the bullet, the other from the guide rod. I put another 250 rounds thru the pistol that day with a boken guide rod and never had any feeding issues. |