Taking off a Remington barrel?

[223Rem]

Barrel vise.....Check
Receiver Wrench.....Check

What gives, because the receiver sure isn't. I am trying to remove a Rem700 barrel and for the life of me I can not get the action and barrel to break apart? If I am standing on the left side of the action which direction does the wrench travel? Towards me or away?

TIA

 

[fivering]

All standard US threads tighten in a clockwise direction, loosen in a counterclockwise direction.

 

[Rustystud]

Don't twist or bend your action!

What Kind of action wrench are you using?

Are you going to try and salvage the old barrel?

Soak the tenon and action joint well with Kroil over night.

Heat it up with a hair dryer and letting it to cool. several cycles. on the final cycle while it is hot soak it with kroil and let it cool down.

If you are not going to keep and use the barrel make a relief cut in the barrel just in front of the action taking the tension off the barrel and action.

It should just break loose and spin off then.

If it is gaulded or glued in it may require to be completely bored out.

Rustystud

 

[Preacher]

Do as Rustystud mentioned and them find a 4 foot chunk of water pipe and put some pressure on it. Those darned old Remingtons have more gunk in em than any I've seen.
A hot air gun will usually do the trick, please shy away from using a propane torch.....
Some types of action wrenches won't cut it, you need something that will use all 360 degrees of the clamping force........ I sure wouldn't try to use a wrench that inserts from the rear to break down a factory barreled action....

 

[Rustystud]

A word of caution.. If your action wrench is a Brownells or equivlent don't over tighten it. use a bolt through the wrench to secure it from slipping. If you overtighten the action wrench it will/can compress the action onto the barrel tenon and make it difficult to remove the action from the barrel.

Rustystud

 

[Cheechako]

223

If everything else fails, and it sometimes does, and you want to salvage the barrel, try this.

Grind the bottom off of the recoil lug as close to round as you can get it. Chuck the whole thing in your lathe and make a narrow parting cut through the center of the lug until you are within a few thou of the tenon. This should relieve enough tension that the barrel will screw right off. You'll lose the lug but they are cheap and easy to find. You'll probably want to replace it anyway with one of the thicker, flatter ones.

Ray

 

[Ackman]

Those barrels are put on with some kind of Loctite-like adhesive. I've seen them held with a really powerful barrel vise and popped off using a 4' cheater bar. But it takes something like a big press to hold the barrel tight enough, and most home barrel-changers don't have that kind of setup. Just use a propane torch and heat the action where the threads are. I've done it a bunch of times and it works fine. Don't worry, things never get anywhere near hot enough to cause problems.....really. Just play the torch evenly around the action until you start to see and smell fumes. As the thread locker softens it'll feel like there's chewing gum in there when you're unscrewing the barrel. Easiest quickest way and it's perfectly safe for the action.

 

[223Rem]

Gentlemen,

Thank you for all the constructive and well considered advice.

Have plenty of Kroil, a blowtorch and patience.

I will keep you posted.

Patrick