I have a 1956 Remington 760 in 257 Roberts that I am trying to take apart to give it a good cleaning. The bolt and inside the receiver is covered in old sticky grease and needs to be cleaned up. I watched some videos on youtube and read some instructions but I cant get the action tube to free up. Is anyone familiar with this rifle that has taken these apart for a complete cleaning?
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troy fairweather
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Most guys pull the side pins and trigger assembly out and use break clean or a gun scrubber.
243winxb
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Pull trigger group and clean, as said above. My early 760 tube looks like this.
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I take the buttstock off, and take the trigger group out and hose ithe 760 action with solvent. let it soak into the grease and then start wiping it all out. If it is bad just lean it in a plastic storage tub or something, and spray it with a CLP and let it just drip out.
As other have mentioned, you can clean it pretty well without barrel removal
I had a 35 rem 63 model that was seriously gummed up. Too two hours just to get the trigger group cleaned.
Whatever was used way back had solidified.
The bolt and bolt head were cleaned without removal and it took a while.
Did NOT have to remove the tube or barrel.
But if I wanted to, Id use kroil to get around the tube and bracket by receiver....loosen any rust/ break down any old oils that might have shellacked
The bbl is held to receiver by a bracket that is part of the bbl ( held by extension you wont be messing with ).
Headspace should be fine. No need for gauges.
I had a 35 rem 63 model that was seriously gummed up. Too two hours just to get the trigger group cleaned.
Whatever was used way back had solidified.
The bolt and bolt head were cleaned without removal and it took a while.
Did NOT have to remove the tube or barrel.
But if I wanted to, Id use kroil to get around the tube and bracket by receiver....loosen any rust/ break down any old oils that might have shellacked
The bbl is held to receiver by a bracket that is part of the bbl ( held by extension you wont be messing with ).
Headspace should be fine. No need for gauges.
Kp321
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Glad you got it cleaned up satisfactory. If you do want to go deeper, the barrel is not super hard to remove, just takes some patience and maybe a home made tool. The fore end tube screws onto a stud that is per a attached to the front of the receiver. It acts as a nut to hold the barrel extension to the receiver. There is a cross hole in the fore end tube near the muzzle end. Maybe you can break the tube free with a rod or pin punch that fits through this hole. If it is too tight and bends the rod, you might need to make a tool to support the rod. I always have some yard sale open end wrenches around for projects like this. Take a wrench that will fit around the fore end tube and drill a proper size hole through the sides of the open end so that your rod will go through both sides of the wrench and the fore end tube. This will give the rod the proper support and give you enough leverage to loosen the tube. Once the tube is removed, the barrel and extension will slide out of the receiver along with the bolt.
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