I bought the M&P Apex kit but scared to install myself

Okay, all done and installed, total time, about 1-1/2 hours taking my time and watching the video over and over in each area of installation. The instructions are not the best, but if this guy in the video has done hundreds of these installs, he knows exactly what to do and how to do it so he takes that for granted when doing his video. My biggest pain in the a$$ was getting the trigger assembly back together because I had 1 part upside down, he didnt explain it at all, he went fron the trigger bar in the trigger to the pin in the assembly. I had it upside down and couldnt for the life of me figure out what was wrong (the woe's of NOT being a gun smith I guess LOL). Once I got it figured out, everything started going smoothly. The other problem I had is a almost ruined the little spring under the rear sights, the little silver cover plate flipped up and I just pushed it back over the spring not realizing I had pushed the end of the spring over. Once I tested this part of the instal, the plunger was very stiff and sticky, I ended up taking it apart and flipping the spring over since it was a bit bent at the top end of it. After that, this portion was fine. Lastly, I get it all back together and no fire when I pulled the trigger, stupid me didnt have the diss-assembly pin pushed back in place, now that thats done it seems to be awesome. Very VERY smooth, and light trigger pull and pretty much no over travel. I'll be testing it out tomorrow around noon, will report back on how it feels with ammo then...
 
rubberdown said:
My biggest pain in the a$$ was getting the trigger assembly back together .....

the little silver cover plate flipped up and I just pushed it back over the spring not realizing I had pushed the end of the spring over......

I get it all back together and no fire when I pulled the trigger, stupid me didnt have the diss-assembly pin pushed back in place.....

now that thats done it seems to be awesome. Very VERY smooth, and light trigger pull and pretty much no over travel....
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Congrats! We knew you could do it.


Aligning trigger assy, yup have to hold your tongue jjjuuusssttt right to get that puppy back together.

USB spring, mine is in the shag carpet some where near my vice (don't ask). Was lucky I found the little silver cap.

Don't know what that takedown lever is about, but it has thrown me off more than a few times.

Vast improvement, you won't be disappointed.

How hard was your rear sight to move?

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Rear sight had to be hammered out with a brass punch. I just so happened to be walking around Lowes the other day and saw a magnetic set of hard plastic vise jaws for $10 so I picked them up for my bench vise just for the rear sight. It was in there good and solid, I'm sure I'll have to make some adjustments with the rear sight after I shoot it.

Sometimes I wish I had little itty bitty baby fingers LOL.
 
Congrats! I had brain fart when it got time to put the trigger spring back in. That and that little plug on the left side of the frame. Lost that in the carpet for a bit.
 
WOW, what an improvement over the stock setup! So glad I bought the full FSS and Trigger kit, and also glad I installed it and the gun still works LOL. What a nice trigger. Scotty, let me know when you want to get together and we will swap some guns and do some shooting!
 
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