beretta 92fs take down lever issues

[MrBAD]

cleaned my beretta and now the slide will not go back on the frame. the take down lever is automatically suppose to go up . slide wont even go more than half way back on and i have to manually push take down lever back up counter clockwise. this has never happened before.

[a308garand]

From my experience, only the very newest version Beretta using the blue frame insert has the ability to make the take down lever to reset to the locked position when you reassemble the pistol.

If you have a standard 92fs, 92f, M9, M9a1,etc.... you need to rotate the lever back into the locked position after reassembly.

Maybe the recoil spring/guide is not centered on the barrel and is binding as you try to mount the slide assembly?

The lever should easily rotate up when the slide is slightly retracted...

HTH

[iidx]

I've always had to reset the lever myself on my 92fs.

[MrBAD]

I have always just been able to put the slide on and rack it back without any issues. The takedown lever would go up automatically.

[scglock]

For mine you have to manually push the lever up

[roll2li]

My issue sidearm required me to push the lever back up. Check the detent on the take down pin itself, maybe the firing pin assembly is catching on it if it's not all the way down. Also, are you sure the recoil spring is set in flush? IIRC, not depressing it all the way would stop the slide halfway as it caught on the takedown pin.

[mikestesting]

I've always had to reset the lever myself on my 92fs.

+1 me too

[orangeusa]

I've had both standard 92's and 90-Twos. OP is right, the 90-Twos/92A1's take down lever will take care of themselves.

The only time I had a problems getting the slide to slide back on, the slide rod had popped up a small bit.

Same for 92/96/90-Two, Cougar.. even HiPower.