[Trev140_0]

Alright....so here it is.....

When looking at the internals a second time, I checked out the spring, piston etc again.

Then I decided to look at the spring guide to see if there was some kind of scraping or something.

So get this, picked up the spring guide and holy shit. The spring guide came un threaded. ALOT!

So the spring guides on the stock VFC have a TWO piece spring guide. One part is a threaded rod that screws into the backing.

This threaded rod actually unscrewed about 8 to 10 turns easy. This essentially lengthened the spring guide. This would then act as some weird HARD STOP and hit the BACK of the piston-basically stopping the piston from being able to fully retract.

Absolute most ridiculous thing ever seen.

So threaded the spring guide back together (in a VICE) and problem solved.