Okay, today I decided to do a little maintence on my strat. Though there was nothing wrong with it, I figured it would be good to give it a nice full cleaning and change out the strings.

I took the strings off, and even took the bridge off to clean it totally out because there was dust all in it and crap. Anyways when I finished putting my guitar back together I noticed that there was a little gap between the bridge and the pickguard... The guitar still plays good, but it seems that my whammy bar really isnt working all that great, as it is now harder to get any vibrato going.

Just wondering what the hell happend. Also could this be because of the new strings? My previous strings where .13's and I just put on a set of D'addrio .10's