With which spring are you having difficulties?

 

I’m unfamiliar with the exact name, but it’s for the barrel and I believe the guide rod

 

You must be talking about the recoil spring. Unfortunately, you have to deal with a full length guide rod and it's a royal pain. You'll have to fashion a paper clip to hold the recoil spring in a compressed state during disassembly. There's a hole in the guide rod through which one end of the bent paper clip will go. I imagine there must be You Tube videos showing the process. If your pistol has a barrel bushing, you can always replace the full length guide rod with a standard GI length guide rod and recoil spring plug to simplify assembly/disassembly.

 

Thank you for your reply sir I appreciate it.

 

LOG

 

Get rid of the FLGR & swap to a 2-piece! When I first started in with 1911’s I was lured into the FLGR waste! That was many years ago.

 

Can you do that with a bull barrel & no bushing?

 

Oh. Sorry.. I didn’t read it had a Bull barrel setup. My bad.

I don’t mess the Bull barrels.

 

Actually they, FLGR, are the easiest to deal with Simply lock back the slide, insert "L" bent wire, carefully release the slide so the wire holds it, align the disassembly notch, remove the slide stop, remove the slide, the recoil spring and rod will now come out the back of the slide spring tunnel. etc.etc.

LOG

 

Actually they, FLGR, are the easiest to deal with

What you say is logical and has merit but I guess it comes down to what you're used to and the environment in which you work. Having carried 1911s for many years in some of the most demanding circumstances courtesy of Uncle Sam, I would not have been able to reliably maintain a bent paperclip for use as a disassembly tool. In that world the simpler things were, the better. We never had the luxury of tools to take down our pistols and simply used the parts of the pistol itself to accomplish that task.

 

Yes, well aware of the argument, but a fitted bushing needs a bushing wrench, so sacrificing for a loose one is okay, of course the slide can be removed with the GI and catch the spring, not the easiest for a new person. But the point is 1911's 4" and shorter use a bull barrel and a reverse plug. So knowing how and having a take down tool isn't really such an encumberment.

LOG

 

The RIA 1911A1 MS in 45ACP with a 4.250 bull barrel that I have came with a full length guide rod as you mentioned. I bought a 2 pc. FLGR from Fusion Firearms and it was .100 shorter than RIA factory guide rod. It just barely reaches the machined portion of the spring tube that the guide rod rests in when in battery. The 2 pc guide rod from Fusion is 3.213 long when measured from spring seat to the end of the guide rod. The RIA one pc is 2.315 when measured the same way. Now Fusion Firearms web page says their 2 pc guide rod is for 4.250 barrel. I ordered that guide rod at my own risk. Nowhere in their description did it say it was for a bull barrel, just 4.250 barrel. The spring tubes are different, they do make a spring tube for a bushing barrel with a FLGR. Man I sure was Rambling on don't you think. Anyway they can be a pain and definitely not for field use.

 

I'm sorry, the RIA FLGR is 3.315" long, not 2.315"