I finally got the parts and got around to putting the extruder assembly back together on my qidi x-pro. what I ended up doing was just replacing the left heat block and running the wires down and all that. Was feeling pretty good about how it came out until I realized that the new heat block has a heating element that is physically much larger than the original, and sticks out further. So far in fact that it actually presses against the cooling shroud fairly hard. You can bend it open, slip a piece of paper in side, let it go, and you have to pull fairly hard to pull it out. Considering the cooling shroud is made of plastic and its jammed up against the heating element, I am a little concerned. Pic related.

Any suggestions, ideas, etc? Is it possible to slide the heating element back a little bit?