Authentic Creality Aluminum Extruder Upgrade Kit for All Creality Printers with Capricorn PTFE Teflon Tubing, Upgraded Premium Metal Bed Springs, PC4-M10 Pneumatic Fittings and Two Blue Collet Clips

Parts arrived quickly. The all metal extruder seems well built and installed easily. There were no instructions provided but I was able to find without issue via google. I installed bed springs as well but honestly not sure they were any different then the ones I already had? They seemed to be the same color and spring rate as to what I had. All items were installed on my Ender 5 Plus without issue.

This is a bundled package of all the recommended upgrades for your Ender 3 v2 printer. I would suggest making the upgrades as you are setting up your printer. All upgrades were easily executed using only the tools that come with your printer. I did have a missing part and notified First Layer. They responded quickly and shipped out the item, plus additional items. I would strongly recommended this upgrade for its quality, convenience and customer service from First Layer.

After having been using these upgrades on my Ender 3-v2 for the last several months, I can happily say they are definitely worth the less than $20 price tag. Initially I only installed the Capricorn PTFE tube and new fittings as these are a major need for most printers. If I could take half a star off, I would, simply because this kit does not include a flush cut tool for the PTFE tube. Having as flat (flush) of a cut as you can get on your PTFE tube is absolutely necessary to prevent any filament leakage on the hot end. To get around this, you either have to order a tool and additional Capricorn tube, print a tube holder and hope you keep it from sliding when you cut the tube or come up with a different method. I tried a couple of the printed tools and my success was not that great. So I went the alternate method and loaded my Capricorn tube into one of the new fittings and used the metal edge of the fitting as a guide to cut the tube perfectly. I waited a couple of months before swapping out the bed springs. I wanted to make sure I had a great understanding of how the printer worked and why you benefited from changing springs. After having to relevel the bed with the factory springs a couple of times, I swapped in the orange stiffer springs and have only had to make minor tweaks based on filament changes. The last part I changed out was the metal extruder. I did wait until the factory plastic extruder broke. You know it happens because you get a continuous over or under extrusion issue. The installation of the new metal extruder was very straight forward and took me less than 10 minutes; your time may vary depending on how mechanically inclined you are. MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT MIX UP THE TENSION SPRING FOR THE EXTRUDER WITH ANY OTHER SPRINGS YOU MAY HAVE. They look nearly identical to bed springs and bed springs are about 4mm too long for the extruder and force the toothed gear to chew up your filament and cause prints to fail. Overall, I give this upgrade kit a 4.5 rating and highly suggest it. Is it necessary to wait to install everything? Not really, but learning more about your printer in its absolute factory state will help with troubleshooting in the long run. @Creality, if you read these, please include a good flush cut tool for the Capricorn tubing!

There is NO WAY to attach your bowden pneumatic fitting to this. I of course assumed something so basic would work and only found out at the end of the install that this product is fatally flawed. Worse yet, the seller KNOWS this but keeps selling it anyway. How this gets to be an Amazon Choice is beyond me. Stay away.

Overall good quality parts. Only issue was one of the threads stripped really easily and can no longer be removed. Now Ill have to replace the entire module if I need to change anything.

The square mount piece I received is different from what’s pictured and other reviewers. Mine wasn’t tapped for the pneumatic fittings, instead it uses a plastic collet to hold the tubing in place.

I have read and seen the horror stories of the plastic extruders breaking and destroying a print. So, when I got my ender 3, the first purchase after filament was this aluminum extruder kit. I put in place of the stock unit and printed a direct extruder setup from thingiverse. now I have a direct drive printer that stays perfectly level, thanks to stronger springs and can print flexibles with ease. I bought a $2 all alum extruder from WISH and it works, is better than the plastic on my Voxelab Aquila, but, man does it feel like junk! I will be buying this again, and soon.

Great product. Easy to install.

Springs are too tall which makes leveling the bed correctly impossible, ruined my cmag bed plate as nozzle dragged and dug into bed. Avoid the headache or in my case a nicked finger as I tried to cut a coil off. No instructions for any items in the kit.

Very simply a perfect drop in replacement for the plastic extruder that comes on the ender 3. No burrs, perfect fitment.