I forgot about the magazine disconnecter on the MkIII.:eek:

I don't think I'm fully grasping this. I see a little coil spring inside the lever to remove the hammer strut. Is that the spring I need to remove? I can't move anything, but I do know that with the strut in place, the bolt sticks, but when I pull the lever out, the bolt releases. I don't see a wedge.

give me a call, i will try to explain it over the phone

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Here is my thread.

http://forums.1911forum.com/group.ph...scussionid=654


I just watched the youtube videos its been a while and I don't remember which one it was. It took some fighting to fix it but I think I just got lucky.

Thanks for the help. It is much appreciated. I'll work on the rest tomorrow eveing, and see where it goes from there. nanner

I just fixed it. I wasn't sure about some of the alignements, and that spring at the hammer strut gave me a fit, but I got it. It works proper now. Anybody want to buy a 22/45? :D Naw, now that I can figure it out, I think I'll keep it. But it isn't going to get cleaned as often as my 1911, that's for sure. Run a patch down the barrel, some Ballistol, and I'm done. I'm not going to break it down for a thorough cleaning except for every several hundred rounds. What a PIA!

Yeah major PITA. glad you got it working though.

Been there done that.When I bought mine my local funstore owner repeatedly told me not to take it apart as they are a real bitch to get back together and it is the # 1 gun that comes back to him in a paper bag in pieces.I figured I would just pull the bolt out to clean it and that's when the panic set in.My wife laughed as I repeatedly tried to get it back together after watching every youtube video I could find.I refused to be one of those guys walking in with it in pieces.Since then I use an Otis cleaning system to keep from taking it apart.Glad you got everything working.

Yeah, I was pretty much determined not to be "That Guy" either. I was a little worried from the AGI armorer's course, and some of their warnings sounded dire. Grouse talked me through it (thanks again, Grouse), and once I got the lever in the back to work again, I just tapped out the lever through the top, pulled the bolt out, tapped the barrel off, cleaned it, then the fun started again during reassembly tonight. There's just too much hold it upside down with the trigger pulled, and magaine in, then take out the magazine, then release the trigger, etc, etc. Felt like I was playing Simon Says. "Take out the magazine and remove the bolt, ah ah ah, I didn't say Simon Says". Try it again.
But like everyone has said, once you do it, you understand what needs to be done.

ruger mkiiis vary in PIA. I picked up a new one and dropped out the bold with moderate effort requiring no tools, it went back in the same way. Mine is a pia, I can not even get the levers out of the back of the grip with out a pry bar, oxy acc, and 10000 virgins praying to holy buddha.