Vortek kit problem

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I didn't disassemble the Vortek spring/guide assembly itself. The problem was the sleeve ID was too small to allow the inner guide to slide inside the piston. Once I pulled the sleeve out of the piston, the Vortek kit installed with no problem.

Regarding your gun...

  • How are you compressing the assembly? What kind of compression tool are you usirg?
  • Is the piston part of the assembly? Is it in the gun receiver? 
  • or are you compressing it outside of the gun?
  • Can you see any compression at all?

If you can't compress the spring at all, there must be some interference. 

I would definitely call Vortek. The steel outer guides are a new design, there may be some inner components that we don't know anything about. Maybe something shifted.

Keep us posted!
 
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Rodney, the Vortek inner guides are an interference fit to the spring ID. The spring can be pulled off the rear guide and top hat, but it takes a good deal of force. I have been able to pull the spring off the rear guide by simply gripping the outer guide in one hand, the spring in the other, and pulling hard, no tools required. To remove the top hat, you can fit a dowel inside the spring until it contacts the stem of the top hat and push the top hat out. Or you can fit a screwdriver tip between the end of the top hat stem and one of the spring coils and pry to get it started, then grab the end and pull it all the way out. The screwdriver method is what I saw Tom use last time I was at his shop.
 
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