New(er) S40 battery click issue, I MIGHT have found te real culprit

I bought an S40 yesterday and like my brand new S9 it is having the battery click issues. I saw someone had posted the video of polishing up the firing pin where it rolls over the roll pin, to a point I do believe that this has SOME to do with the issue. I believe the REAL issue is the firing pin spring itself. People have mentioned that when the firing pin is in the cocked position it is fighting against the recoil rod spring, I do not think so. I think that the firing pin spring collar and spring are binding up in the firing pin itself. I removed both the firing pin and spring then basically made the 2 do the hanky panky. I can feel the spring and spring lock grinding and catching on the inside of the firing pin even when I manually rack the slide. I pulled the spring out, cleaned the firing pin out and oiled but the grinding is still there. After looking closer at my spring it almost seems like it is just slightly too long for the rod it is attached too as I can see it is quite wavy, I also notice that the spring collar is very sharp. From here I did an experiment and put everything back together minus the firing pin and spring and when I rack the slide, no grinding, no hangup and no clicking in and out of battery, I obviously could not pull the trigger because their is nothing for the firing pins release mechanism to attach itself too. I put the pistol completely back together again and it will not fully seat in battery and the grinding is back. I did order a BT a set of the striker spring bushings for my S9 but may have to try it on the S40 instead. To me there is no way that the striker spring is working against my recoil rod spring as that spring is STOUT. The problem is in the spring setup itself or the chamber for the striker is to narrow in my particular striker and it is causing semi solid lockup. All the issues are happening when that striker and striker spring are engaged. I will try to get some pics ASAP.

 

[video=youtube;p-fmm1TQE2w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fmm1TQE2w&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

The clicking of my 40 is much more pronounced than on my S9 so I do not know how it will effect performance yet. If the slide is completely in place then it will most likely not effect the function and I am going to shoot today and I will reply back with my findings. I think it is more of an annoyance issue than anything else but regardless it should not be happening at all. If I am right and it is the spring and collar I do not know if even a break in will correct my issue. Now with that being said I used the polishing of the striker on the side that rides over the roll pin on my S9 and that definitely helped, I am going to swap my 9mm's striker spring and throw it in the 40 just to see what happens and if I get the same results.

 

I already have a set on the way, I did not know I was getting the S40, it was kinda an unexpected surprise so I will buy another set. I do know that the Steyr has a striker and I have no idea WHYYY I referred to it as a firing pin (I think I am just more accustom to saying firing pin when I talk to regular people)I am going to order another set right now.

 

I looked further into the issue and I was also noticing that my striker on my 40 was riding over the roll pin extremely hard even with no burrs, I polished the striker like I did on my S9 and while I am still getting some of that gritty feeling (which I believe is from the striker spring it is not as pronounced. I am hoping that between a striker polishing and getting BT's striker spring bushing this clicking will be a thing of the past.

Just out of curiosity is the roll pin absolutely necessary?

 

WULF, thank you for the vid compliment, as you probably saw in my video my guide rod does not sit flush either but only on the S40. Looks kinda tacky if you ask me, I do not know if it supposed to be like that either as it definitely was not in backwards.

 

I know this sucks to say but Steyr should have fixed the old issues (especially with their new guns) than come out with a completely new Steyr all together which will probably end up having the same issues as we are having.

 

THat is very very true.