New C&S hammer set won't engage
I recently purchased an FEG Hi Power. The sights were waaay off, trigger was horrendous, and I'm left handed. I've purchased a sight tool and adjusted that, as well as ordered wide ambi safety and a target hammer set from C&S. safety was a bit of a chore to fit, but that's in and functioning now. I kept the old hammer strut and installed the 26# spring on it. My issue is the hammer is coming to hard stop just a fraction of a millimeter too soon to reliably engage the sear. I can see the reason for the stop being full compression of the main spring.
It seems to me the solution here is to take half a coil off the main spring, but I see advice not to do so, and both ends of the spring are terminated flat. Obviously I don't want to trim the sear. Is there something I'm missing here? Do I trim the main spring, or do I need C&S' hammer strut?