Colt ace conversion kit

[KY DAN]

I have a kit which is missing parts.

I need a recoil spring , guide rod, spring cap

Can anyone recommend a supplier?

 

[Rock185]

Not sure about what the spring cap is, could it be the recoil spring plug that retains the front of the recoil spring? In any case, the standard weight 14# recoil is available from Wolff Gunsprings and likely others. My traditional Colt conversion kit, with "floating chamber", just used standard Government Model recoil recoil spring guide and recoil spring plug, available at Brownells, Midway, and others. Fortunately, the parts you mention are easily available, and relatively inexpensive. If you already have a Colt Government Model, you could just use the standard recoil spring guide and plug from your gun...

 

[PzGren]

What Rock 185 wrote sums it up. If you have a model with the floating chamber, you will notice that it gets very dirty and eventually stuck. The accuracy from mine is not great but it works reliably with high velocity ammo.

 

[Rock185]

PZ, As long as I kept the floating chamber portion lubed, mine was reliable with HV ammo too. Shooting carefully as I could over a rest at 25 Yds, my kit was not as accurate as my stock .45 ACP Series 70 guns with the collet bushing. I fitted a match barrel bushing to the kit just for the heck of it, to see if replacing the loose drop in factory bushing made any difference at all. It did.

 

[Jim Watson]

If you already have a Colt Government Model, you could just use the standard recoil spring guide and plug from your gun..

Some years, the kit came without guide and plug, you were expected to use the centerfire parts.

As said, they are standard 1911 parts. Wolff says the recoil spring is 14 lbs, same as .38 Super. I am getting better operation with a lighter spring. Right now only 9 lbs, but that is to suit some very mild Wolf and SK ammo.

 

[Speedo66]

What Rock 185 wrote sums it up. If you have a model with the floating chamber, you will notice that it gets very dirty and eventually stuck. The accuracy from mine is not great but it works reliably with high velocity ammo.

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An older neighbor had liberated one with the floating chamber from the Navy.

He loaned it to me with the idea of my eventually buying it, but the PIA of unsticking it after very few rounds was more than I wanted to deal with.

Being US Gov't marked I'm sure it's worth a pretty penny now, but I still wouldn't want it.

Could that gun have been converted to .45?

 

[Jim Watson]

Yes. I had a .45 set for mine until I used the parts in another project.
In fact, Colt made a .45-22 conversion for the purpose. But only 112 of them.

 

[bannockburn]

Years ago I had a Colt Ace .22 conversion kit for my Colt Government. Like many of you I also ran into the sticky floating chamber problem and accuracy was particularly disappointing. Some time later I finally found a high quality .22 conversion, a Tac-Sol 2211, for a 1911 Essex frame that I had put together. So much better in terms of build quality, functioning, and accuracy than the Colt Ace.

 

[1KPerDay]

My colt conversion unit has no issues with chamber sticking and has been very reliable. Fun to shoot with the added recoil. Not particularly accurate but I’m not a bullseye shooter anyway