r/DWX DWX Owner Mar 25 '26

Sear spring issue

I think I might have broken the end of my sear spring by installing it wrong. The end feels very rough. It is hard to see but doesn’t look right. Also I was getting hammer follow accompanied by the trigger not resetting. I just installed a red dirt trigger. What can/should I get as a replacement?

Edit/ add: I removed the overtravel screws completely. It has some pre travel but that’s how I like it.

Everything moves freely. Even with everything installed and back together. What I think might’ve happened and is likely, is that I installed the Sear Spring incorrectly and it clipped off part of the left most finger. I noticed that it has a bit of an edge to it. And that when I disassembled my gun after having issues, I found two small pebble, almost like looking things inside the frame by my shoe area. I should have checked if they were magnetic but I wansnt thinking. This along with the tip of the finger having an edge to it I feel as though it’s the sear spring.

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u/Emergency_Loquat_570 DWX Owner Mar 25 '26

It worked perfectly fine when dry firing but then during live fire today it did not work.

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u/ACxREAL Mar 25 '26

Yeah that happens. Springs tend to settle in after a minute. I’ve got a pretty good idea what’s going to work but depending on how close you are to the edge the gun can start acting up after a few rounds or a hundred rounds.

Typically after i set the sear spring where I think it’s good I will aggressively rack the slide and dry fire the gun 20-30 times. Most of the time the hammer follow will show up in that time frame if it’s going to happen.

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u/Emergency_Loquat_570 DWX Owner Mar 25 '26

I have probably 2000 rounds on the factory trigger and sear spring.

What do you mean by how close to the edge?

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u/ACxREAL Mar 25 '26

We picked this up in a direct message conversation but if someone else was reading this I mean close to the edge of not working. So hammer not resetting and getting hammer follow. When there isn’t enough pressure or engagement on the sear and hammer notch the hammer won’t reset and it follows the slide forward.

You can have other issues if there isn’t enough room for the trigger bow to allow the disconnector / sear to reset.

Specifically here is was talking about the sear spring

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u/Emergency_Loquat_570 DWX Owner Mar 25 '26

How would you know if there isn’t enough room for the bow to reset things?

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u/ACxREAL Mar 25 '26

I would observe the parts with the grips off and see if they are resetting.

also there is an audible click when you release the trigger.