AR handguard

[John Y.]

Hello,

How easy is it to change the handguard of an AR? I have a carbine and am interested in swapping the stock handguard with a quad rail?

Hard, easy, or leave it to a professional?

Thanks.

JY

 

[cpt. canuck]

Super easy just pull back the ring at the back of the hand guards and pop them off. Now putting on a rail is a different story, what rail do you have?

 

[John Y.]

Hi Cpt. Canuck.

Sorry, got my story mixed up. The rifle came with a stock quad rail handguard. Right now, I don't have anything to attach to it so I'm considering swapping out the quad rail and putting on one of those Marstars cylindrical handguards.

JY

 

[IDPACONVERT]

So, you're going to swap quad rail HG's for stock Carbine - M4 HG's? Or, is it the free floating aluminum HG's?
I would be interested in the rail HG's, if you were going to sell them.

 

[Jasonsmack]

Some quad rails are mounted with the delta ring and some are mounted with the barrel nut. A description of the rearmost area of your handguard or a picture of the gun would help us help you.

 

[John Y.]

Thanks for the emails. I actually don't have the rifle yet. I'll have it within a few days and will post a description.

 

[skeetgunner]

Hello,

How easy is it to change the handguard of an AR? I have a carbine and am interested in swapping the stock handguard with a quad rail?

Hard, easy, or leave it to a professional?

Thanks.

JY

John,

Its super easy, but depending on the configuration you may need some speciatly tools (barrel wrench, vise-blocks etc). Go here http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=226782 and have a look at the process to install a free-float tube.

If I understand your other posts, yYou basically want to do the reverse; remove the FFT/rail and install handguards.