Cleaning my new Kimber

[vito]

I just bought a new Kimber Ulta Carry II and I am having a tough time understanding how to take it apart for lubrication, and later cleaning. Am I the only one with this problem? If someone has good instructions on doing this I would love to see them. Thanks.

["DoubleAction"]

Vito; The first thing you want to do ( I am required to say this, I know your not that careless) is make sure the gun is unloaded.
Next : Cock the hammer and retract the slide, locking the slide to the rear.
Next : You should see a hole in the guide rod; Take a paper clip and bent the end at a 90 degree angle, at a length no linger than the thickness of the guide rod.
Next : Insert the shorter bent end into the hole, while slowly releasing the slide. This will take the pressure off the recoil spring.
Next : On the slide, facing the slide stop lever, you will see a small cuttout next to the frame between the slide stop cuttout and trigger. This cuttout is for the Slide stop removal, and must be lined up with the slide stop engagement lug.
Next: When you align the Slide Stop with the cuttout in the slide, push the slide stop out from the other side.
Next : The slide should be able to be removed from the frame.
Are you with me so far ?

["DoubleAction"]

I brought you a photo of the slide stop take down notch on my Colt Officer.

[vito]

I got that far. But after removing the slide from the frame, I could not get the barrel out of the slide. The instructions state to push this little piece forward and slide the barrel out. I pushed the piece forward, but while the barrel would move, I could not figure out how to get it out the slide itself. And then when in frustration I decided to give up, and I just tried to put it back together, I had no luck at all. If worse comes to worse I'll go back to where I bought it and hope the gun salesman are better at this than I am. I have never had a problem with any of my other semi autos, so this is very frustrating. I haven't been able to shoot the new Kimber yet since I had to take it apart to lubricate before firing it. Thanks for your help so far.

[BlueSteel]

If you go to 1911fourm.com and click on the kimber section, they have a sticky that shows a detailed description on taking down series II's.

["DoubleAction"]

Vito; If you remove the guide rod from the rear port side, swing the barrel link down toward the muzzle, the barrel should come out toward the muzzle end of the slide.

[vito]

Am I removing the entire spring mechanism? That is what looks like is blocking the barrel from coming out.

By the way, suddenly when I go to the forum from email, ie. when told their is a new entry on a thread I am following, I get a message saying I am not authorized to get on the forum. When I go straight to the website, then to the thread, I have no problem.

["DoubleAction"]

Vito; I can only imagine how difficult this is without someone showing you.
The Recoil Spring Assembly, and anything attached to it, or the slide, including a reversed recoil spring plug, needs to be removed prior to removing the barrel.The only thing remaining in the muzzle end of the side should be the barrel, before it's removed.
I still must advise you to seek further assistance with the pistol, at the range or gun shop.

[vito]

Thanks. I really appreciate the help. I also went to the 1911 forum site, and found photos for complete dissembly of a Kimber, but it is different enough from mine that the instructions didn't help. I'll give the Kimber dealer a chance to help.

[vito]

THanks to all who tried to help me on this. I went to the store where I bought the gun, and it took about 1 minute to show me how to fully get it apart, and put it back together. A picture might be worth 1,000 words but a demonstration is worth at least 10,000.

["DoubleAction"]

Thanks for coming back to us on this vito; I knew once you seen it done, it would be easier. I also feel more comfortable with you getting some personnal assistance on this.