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Unscrewing a savage barrel.
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Never did this before.
I have been trying to get this barrel nut off of my Savage 110. I haven't given it a serious effort yet. I stripped down the action and put it in a padded vice. I tried to screw off the barrel nut with the wrench. No dice. So I warmed it up a bit to try to soften the thread locker and tried again. No good.
Tomorrow I will build a proper set of wood blocks to hold and support the action so I can put some real effort into it.
What can I expect?






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Had a tight nut on my first barrel swap. Tried blocks but they kept slipping. Finally ordered a barrel vise. The best thing I did was to stand the barrel up and put Kroil oil around the nut a couple of times during a three day period. Put the barrel in the vise, put the wrench on the nut and hit it with a dead blow hammer (not hard) and the nut came loose easily.
 
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Kroil applied. Thanks.
I'll be sure to remember this.






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If you haven't been there yet, you might want to try The Brotherhood of the Barrel Nut for Savage related topics, also.
 
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For some reason, Savage doesn't follow their own procedures which say that the barrel nut should be torqued to 35 Ft-Lbs. As every factory nut that I've taken off has taken a hammer to get it off. I think that they "spot torque" them, (pull so hard that you see spots).


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A good web for swapping savage barrels is savageshooters.com, plenty of info and the guys there are a great help. Let us know how things are shaping up.
 
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FrownerThey use a supstance like lok-tite black max. It took 3 weeks using a high heat blower and kroil to loosen the first one And an eight poung sledge on the wrench. The next three were a little easyer. Eeker no joke! beerroger


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It's off now.I called the smith I work with, he laughed at me when I told I was having trouble. I took it over to his place. He put the barrel in a clamp, put on an action wrench AND hit the barrel nut wrench with a rubber hammer. Then it came loose. It had been soaking in kroil for about 36 hours.
It looks pretty beefy with the 458 win mag barrel. I have some inletting to do to the stock.






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