Yeah I'm pretty sure a big rubber mallet is required. Possibly a B.F.Hammer
I checked YouTube but I don't think I used the correct search words. Because I didn't find any. I would think accidentally putting the spring upside down would be common enough for at least a couple YT vids
When I needed my engine rebuild I took an engine class at my community college.
Learned, and did it myself. When I sold the car it was still running like a top after 6 or 8 years and a dozen or 2 20lbs bottles of nitrous
Guns are new to me. But the gunsmith is just some dude who, at one point...
I must have installed it wrong. (Before reassembly I googled. It said "one way lines up and looks correct, the other way doesn't" So I tried both and I guess I choose the wrong way. Put it back together.
Now the slide won't rack completely (travel all the way back)
Which is necessary to...