Sear and sear spring orientation

You definitely don't need to remove the grip to get things reset, but you may need to remove the thumb safety, hammer sear and disconnector and put everything back in from there.

Here is a pretty good step by step video. Also, watch over the video to verify your Sear spring is sitting correctly in the gun.

Thank you AJP, much appreciated. I don't know what happened but played around while watching the video and it worked. Glad I didn't have to remove the safeties as I couldn't get them to rotate up at all. I "think" the lip on the left leg was unseating itself while sliding the main spring housing on, since there was a very pronounced click. Last time I kept some pressure on that leg while sliding the housing on. No click and hammer locked back.

One of these days I'm going to have to learn how to remove the ambis. One thing that did really surprise me on a gun that costs as much as a Quantico hi cap does was none of the grip screws were loctited. All this over a mag well I couldn't get the holes to line up on.

ToledoUPSguy said:

One of these days I'm going to have to learn how to remove the ambis. One thing that did really surprise me on a gun that costs as much as a Quantico hi cap does was none of the grip screws were loctited. All this over a mag well I couldn't get the holes to line up on.

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The ambi safeties can be a real pain in the butt to remove, but another member posted a great bit on how to get them off more easily that really cut down on the cursing I did to remove them previously. I'll find later when I have a minute.

Thanks for the video.

@ToledoUPSguy I’m glad you were able to put everything together again. I know from experience it is a pain, and for the little it matters, I had the same nightmare experience without this Forum to help.

I am always impressed with @AJP knowledge and willingness to share it. I think I learned most of what I know about 2011s from him. Just a kick a$$ great guy!

Here is a thread that should be a sticky on how to remove the ambi safety. Scroll down to post 8. Works like a charm.
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