cz 85 right slide stop removal

[Mr. Bean]

Hi all,
Just a bit of a question as to how to remove the right slide stop on a cz 85? Any tools needed or special knowledge? Its a B model, and I was wondering are they interchangeable from model to model?

Thanks
 

[KFD147]

It is easy to take off. Just take the left pin out, then rotate it upside down and pull out. Putting it back on is the hard part.  Have a pick handy and lift up the spring that is over the slide stop pin hole on the right side. Lift it high enough so you can pull the right side release off. It sounds easier than it is. You do have to work at it a little. That spring is a PITA.


Jason

[vixty]

Is it possible to just take the RHS slide stop off and run the gun like that.  I really have no need for it and don't like how it looks.

[Bossgobbler]

you wont like the looks without it.

[Tok36]

Is it possible to just take the RHS slide stop off and run the gun like that.  I really have no need for it and don't like how it looks.

The right side slide stop lever in a CZ85 receives the post from the left side slide stop lever and stabilizes it. I do not believe that you can run the pistol without the right side lever. The right side slide stop lever hole is larger than the left to allow installation of the right side lever.

Pic for reference.

[KFD147]

Holy smoke guys! Way to resurrect an old thread from almost 6 years ago.




Jason

[Tok36]

Arg! Zombie thread.......at least its near Halloween.

[angus hobdell]

We have made bushing for the Right Hand side for people who really don't like the look :-)
Happy Halloween.

[tobin]

So is the removal of the right side slide stop lever on the 85 purely aesthetic or can you safely run the gun with a 75 slide stop?

Seeing conflicting posts but I think it is ok?

[M1A4ME]

The way the world goes.

Some people don't like the right side lever and want to remove it.

Me?  I add them to the CZ75's to make they look like the CZ85's.

I've never tried to run my Pre B CZ85 without the right side lever.  The right side of the frame is "double" walled as compared to the left side.  It appears the slide stop shaft if supported by the inner frame section but I could be wrong about that.

Remove the right side lever, reinstall the left side lever completely, then try to move the right side of the slide stop shaft that stick out of the frame.  Push it up/down, forwards/backwards and see if it's got slop in it not present with the right side level is installed.

This is, I think, the CZ75 Compact I installed a CZ85 slide lock/release in.  See the outside (right side) of the frame, the retaining spring just inside that and the thicker inside section of the frame?  The larger diameter part of the right side hole (for the right side slide release lever) does not go all the way through that wider section.  The larger OD hole is deep enough to allow the right side slide release lever to go in far enough for the retaining spring to fit down into the slot on the right side slide release lever and hold it in position in the frame.  It appears, to me, that the rest of that wide frame section to the left of the retaining spring would support the slide release shaft.  It would leave an "ugly" gap around the shaft though.  That's why Angus replied that they make a bushing to fit in there to fill in that gap.  You might contact CZ Custom and see if they still make those if you want to run the gun without the right side lever.

[M1A4ME]

Tok, is that your CZ85?  Pretty gun.  I love the way those look.  If it wasn't for having to have an ugly cut made in the slide I'd be tempted to send my CZ75B .40 (modified for the CZ85 slide release) off to be milled for a red dot and back up iron sights.  It shoots good enough to be worth it.

[tobin]

Thanks for the reply.  I measured the OD of the right side slide stop and it is .250 while the OD of the shaft on the CZ 75 left slide stop is .195 so a difference of .55".  However the frame hole up to the slide stop spring appears to be .195 and opens up after the spring to accept the right side stop and lock it in place.

If I could find an 85 left side slide stop I would be much happier!

[M1A4ME]

Did you leave out a zero?

0.055"?

You could still try it with the left side slide release.  It's going to stick out some.  If you like it (left side only slide release lever) then order a CZ75 part.

[tobin]

Did you leave out a zero?

0.055"?

You could still try it with the left side slide release.  It's going to stick out some.  If you like it (left side only slide release lever) then order a CZ75 part.

Yup. Left out the zero!  Not that much metal there. I think it it just to catch the slide stop spring to hold in the right side slide stop, not sure it performs much if any recoil absorption.  However, I did see this post from Walt Sherrill in 2018:

And don't make the STUPID MISTAKE I made, many years ago, when trying different slides on different frames.  I put a 85 Combat slide on a 75B compact frame and dumbly used the 85 Combat slide stop.  (I just wasn't paying attention and didn't really think about the differences.)

Because the far end of the 85B and 85 Combat slide stop fits into a fixture on the frame, that end is narrower than the standard slide stop -- and that narrower end isn't properly supported.  When the gun recoils, rather than spreading the force of the barrel's rearward movement evenly from the barrel lug to the slide stop, the barrel lug hits the stop at an angle, and breaks.   Duh.

If you have an 85B or an 85 Combat, or any CZ with an ambidextrous slide release (are there any other?) you can get in trouble if you're not careful.

But I think that is a different situation as I would be using the CZ 75 stop which does not have the tapering of the 85 stop at the right end.