Disassembling the Ruger 10/22 Tutorial

[Albert A Rasch]

Hello everyone!

When I posted the Ruger 10/22 rotary magazine disassembly tutorial, I received such a positive response from everyone here that I would like to thank you all for such support.

I thought that a tutorial on disassembling, cleaning and reassembling the Ruger 10/22 might be fun and useful also. The first part is the disassembly, aptly titled "Disassembling the Ruger 10/22."

I hope it is as useful as the magazine one was.

Thanks again for all the support and best regards!
Albert
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles
The Range Reviews: Tactical

 

[rondog]

Interesting, thanks! I've got two of those jamming little s.o.b.'s, maybe I can tear 'em apart and fix 'em. I just hate buying things that you have to replace 90% of the parts to make it work right.

 

[flipajig]

It would be nice for some one to post how toos on other guns also glocks,ruger p serries and others

 

[Albert A Rasch]

Rondog,
What are the jamming symptoms? Is it stovepipeing, not feeding, feeding but not closing?

Flipajig,
I was asked to do one on the AR15, and then I thought that I would do the 1911. I just may do the whole gun safe over the next couple of months!

Thanks for participating!

Regards,
Albert A Rasch
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles
The Range Reviews: Tactical

 

[Hoxviii]

Is it just me, or is your link bad?

Yeah, for me the one you posted is dead, but this one works. Weird, because the addresses are identical to one another.

http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/disassembling-cleaning-and-assembling.html

 

[3pairs12]

Its not working for me either.

 

[Albert A Rasch]

That's Weird...

Let's try this then:

Disassembling

Sorry I'm sure I must have done something wrong
Albert

I went back and redid the original post also. It seems to be working fine.

Thanks,
Albert

 

[3pairs12]

Thats better and thank you for posting.

 

[rondog]

Rondog,
What are the jamming symptoms? Is it stovepipeing, not feeding, feeding but not closing?

Most commonly stovepiping, failing to eject, spent case jamming up with a new round going in, etc. Very frustrating, happens more to my grandson, makes me feel bad for him. Sure screws up his shooting fun. And I don't buy the crap about ammo types, a .22 rifle should work with any .22lr ammo. Federal, Remington, Winchester, they should ALL work just fine.

I've read about replacing the extractors, just haven't ordered any. There's so dang many kinds of aftermarket 10/22 parts and vendors it's overwhelming. Don't know what to buy from who.

I'm not very impressed with the 10/22, at least the ones we have.

 

[Albert A Rasch]

First thing I would do is clean up the magazine. Then I would pull the bolt and scrub it clean. Then the action.

We are talking about maybe an hours work, and most of that is fooling around with the magazine.

What I think is happening is that the bolt is real dirty and the timing is off. The extractor might have a lot of build up in and around it, thereby failing to give positive extraction.

Try that and see if that takes care of the problems.

Regards,
Albert

 

[rondog]

Cody's rifle was a jammer brand-new from the store. Mine was used, but it was spotless when I got it.

I'll tear 'em apart and clean 'em one of these days, but what do you mean by "timing"? And what is the best aftermarket extractor? We like these little rifles, but we'd really prefer to love them. Hard to do when they piss us off so much.

 

[Albert A Rasch]

If your bolt is dirty, or the spring is gummed up, it may slow the bolt sufficiently to prevent proper feeding or ejection. That would be the timing as I used the word. Might have another meaning too for all I know...

Also check the feed lips on the magazine. There might be a burr or defect that is messing things up. I've been meaning to polish mine up just for the heck of it. Aftermarket magazines are notoriously unreliable too.

I'll try to get the assembly post up at the beginning of the week. I just put the cleaning one up a few minutes ago.

In case y'all are ahead of me, assembly is pretty much the reverse of the disassembly. The bolt takes a bit of jiggling to get it to seat properly on the charging handle so be aware of that. Use a good quality oil, and get the spring and guide rod too.

Don't forget to put the safety at the midway point, and while you're sliding the action in place, don't let the pins drop out.

On aftermarket extractors I have no knowledge, but now I guess I'll have to find out!

I hope that helps, and again thank you all for participating. Please let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Albert A Rasch
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles
The Range Reviews: Tactical