Ratings and Reviews of Performance Spring Kit for Ruger LCP II 22lr Lite Rack Pistols

Long review, crappy gun, good kit to fix it.

Just buy this!
It'll fix this crappy designed Ruger and at least make it a good range gun (read to the bottom).

Bought a brand new Lite Rack for my daughter. Right out of the box it was terrible. High velocity rounds, standard rounds, "self defense" rounds, lead, plated, nickel or brass case, issues with them all, a good dozen different brands, types, grains, bullet types.
Stove pipes, failure to feed and the most common, failure to extract.
Probably only two or three rounds before a malfunction, clear it and maybe get one round before another.
I honestly don't think we got through one whole mag without at least one issue.
Figuring it needed "broken in", we struggled with this junky thing for more than a couple hours and a few hundred rounds.

Disgusted but not willing to have Ruger claim it was fine, like they did for the janky SR22 pistol I had sent back to them, three times, I decided to try this spring kit.

Installed this kit after good success with the LCP .380 springs.
As others have said, installation can be a pain, if you have issues, step away for a bit, this goes for anything that gets frustrating btw.
Use a laptop with a large screen so you can pause whatever video you decide to use.

At the range, ZERO issues with every high velocity ammo I tried, 100 rounds of Stinger, 100 of Viper and 100 Mini-Mag, zero issues.
The only issue was with the lower velocity (1070 listed FPS) so called self defense round, Federal Punch.
I think the lower weight bullet and the lower velocity just isn't a good fit with a blowback .22 like this.

Now, Galloway needs to make an improved magazine spring, having the follower collapse multiple times caused me to go buy her a Smith 351C.
Ruger seriously put an oversized click pen spring in their mags?
Three mags, all brand new, each one gave me issues.
What engineer thought this was a good idea?
Each issue the spring came out of the mag body looped over itself...
I did "polish" the follower, mainly where Ruger left mold marks, using Meguiar's PlastX polish and a small buffing wheel on slow speed in my Dremel I think I got them working half decent now.

This upgrade should be a requisite for all LCP 2 22LR models. Prior to the swap I had multiple failure to feed and failure to eject issues using good ammo (CCI). After the upgrade the pistol ran FLAWLESSLY, again with good ammo. I also deliberately ran in through bad ammo, and again there were problems but not with the good stuff. 300 rounds of CCI Mini Mag 40gr and not a single failure. This upgrade is not for the faint of heart however; the FCU is a MAJOR pain to remove and reseat in this model, and removing the factory hammer spring tested my sanity. Consider either sending your pistol to Galloway for the upgrade, or have a local gunsmith perform it.

1st outing with new LCPII .22 was frustrating with multiple fail to fires that appeared to be light strikes. As a former high level .22 Bullseye competitor I wrongly assumed all .22's ran as flawlessly as my competition guns. (I don't EVER remember a FTF during slow or rapid fire with my competition High Standard pistol and Eley match ammo over tens of thousands of rounds!) Anyway, imagine my disappointment with my new pocket pistol. A little online searching showed it's a "thing" with the LCP. Enter Galloway Precision. Turns out they're neighbors so I grabbed their LCPII .22 spring kit and put their install youtube video on slowmo/repeat next to my workbench. Done! Test fired a couple hundred rounds. ZERO malfunctions of ANY kind. ZERO! Ya'll have made a pistol I almost regretted buying into my trusted new favorite gun. Thanks neighbor!

Great upgrade for the LCP II, now 100% with everything I tried in it.
CCI Mini-Mag, CCI segmented, CCI stingers, CCI standard velocity, Aguila HP, and CCI tactical. More than worth the price and install is not that hard.

Extremely helpful video. I ran it at about 75% speed which helped my old eyes see and comprehend better. There were a few views where the assembly was below the camera, and I had to guess what was going on. Otherwise, a very informative video with helpful and humorous dialogue. Thanks Brandyn.

Don’t waste time reading reviews and dragging your feet, just add it to the cart!

Ruger should’ve made this the stock setup, I had a dozen FTF, a couple of stovepipes and FTE in 200 rounds of Aguila HV after fully cleaning it, I shot another 200 from the same box and 100 mini mags today with no problems whatsoever. I didn’t consider this one of the duds at the time, I just wanted to upgrade my new range toy and it’s made a night and day difference!

It’s a little nerve wracking breaking open a brand new $350 investment with a cheap punch set and a block of wood with a towel on it but if I can figure it out in less than an hour so can you! I bent the hammer spring hook to remove it when the pin was stubborn, otherwise this was a super simple install. As a side note, I’ve seen a few firing pins break online so I’ve been avoiding dry firing with the extra power.

While you’re in there toss in a Sigurd trigger and be ready to burn up all of your ammo because this little guy is a blast when it’s working correctly!

I like many others was dissatisfied with the failures to fire of my lcp2 new out of the box. Being it fit my carry needs to a T other than reliability issues so i really wanted it to work. Did some reading and found some people had good luck with this spring kit. So i ordered one and installed it. It made a night and day difference. It is amazing what 10% difference in a few spring tensions made. This lcp 2 is now one of the most reliable firearms i own short of a few dud rounds out of the bulk loose pack ammo problems typical to 22. This thing eats everything ive fed it 100% reliable. This is now my daily carry gun i always have on me if im clothed. Thank you so much for putting this kit out here for us. I tell anyone i find with an lcp2 about it. I legitimately just created this account so i could post this comment on here.

I was ready to take this LCPII .22 to the pawn shop & take a big loss on this $300 paper weight. I'm glad I saw your video & got the spring kit. It has made all the difference in the world. I have run mag after mag slow fire, rapid fire. No more light primer strikes or failures. It has functioned properly & reliably. This is the fun pistol that I wanted. No Thanks to Ruger, but much thanks to Galloway Precision.

I was pretty disappointed in my LCP II .22. Lots of smokestack FTE, and a disconcerting number of FTF -- the slide closed on an empty chamber, or the firing pin strike failed to discharge a chambered cartridge. After installing this set of springs, these problems disappeared. The two types of ammo I commonly use suddenly started working reliably. I also polished the feed ramp using a fine Flitz-type polish on a Q-tip inserted in the chuck of my Dremel tool (no metal removed, just polished). Combined with the Galloway trigger, these mods have made the little pistol much more trustworthy.

Fairly easy to change out the spring set, only issue was dropping a pin which rolled off. 1:20hr job with 1hr spent looking for the pin. couple of days left before I get to test out the new springs at the range, but testing with dryfire rounds has had great success. Definite solid feel to it. Will see how it does before i order the trigger.