How to disassemble Rasheed, Garand, Ljungman, etc.

[bas]

M.53 Part 2

Lift the feed tray

Keeping the receiver cover and feed tray together, rotate so that they are at ninety degrees to the gun

Pull out the retaining pin

Receiver cover, feed tray and retaining pin

At the back of the actuating arm there is a spring holding it in place

Hold this down

And lift the arm up and free.

Disengage from the rest of the feed mechanism

Underside of the actuating arm

Push the cartridge guide towards the rear of the cover

And release the preassure so that it is upright

Lift the spring and lift the rest of the feed mechanism free

Empty top cover

Seperate the remaining two peices

Feed pawls

Disassembled top cover

 

[bas]

M.53 Part 3

The cocking handle locks back on the rear of the receiver

Pull the handle to give it enough clearance to free it up

Remove the cocking handle

Cocking handle

To remove the barrel push the barrel change door forward

and to the right

Remove the barrel

Remove the flash suppressor and recoil booster unit

Lift the locking pin located forward of the front sight

Unscrew and remove the flash supressor

Recoil booster and flash suppressor

Remove the barrel bushing

Lift the locking pin and push the bushing towards the rear of the barrel jacket

Remove from the barrel jacket

Barrel bushing, recoil booster and flash suppressor

Remove the bipod

Press in the locking pin

and lift free of the barrel jacket

Disassembled M.53

 

[svt1940]

Hi fellows milsurp lovers Snowing here today so no better time to stay home and take care of my Rasheed, bought from Wolverine surplus sale. I said to myself why not take pics and post on CGN,might be fun and useful(i hope) The Rasheed was very dusty and sandy inside and out so needed a deep cleaning. Let's begin

As with any firearm, first is make sure the rifle is clear and unloaded. Pulling back the charging handle

To remove the magazine, unlatch and pushing the latch foward will drop the mag.

Now, pull the loading handle to disengage the bolt hold open device and slowly close the bolt.

To remove bolt:
Put safety in middle position, push the action cover foward just enough so the safety assembly can be pulled straight up.

Now, pull the action cover and recoil springs away from the rifle.

Next, remove the bolt and carrier from the rifle and separate the bolt from the carrier. Now, basic field strip is done.

Gas system

Remove the 2 screws of the barrel band and slide away from the handguard.

pull and lift the hanguard from the rifle

we can see the gas regulator

To remove the regulator, i used an adjustable wrench but plier would be ok too. I will make an adjusting tool soon using a hand socket driver.

While unscrewing the regulator, a small screwdriver should be used to very very gently,pry the retaining spring so the pring wont catch the mark and steps on the regulator base. Again, the idea is to pry the spring tabs just enough to unscrew the valve.

To remove the gas tube.
Loosen the jam nut

On the tube, there's flat spot to grab the tube and uncrew it. I used Visegrip to carefully unscrew the tube but i will make a tool for that too.

Once loose, i was able to uncrew with fingers. Once unscrewed from the gas block, remove the jam nut and slide the gas tube to the rear and out of the rifle.

Stock removal.
To remove stock, first you need to pry the little locking device so the screw can be taken out. 3 screws need to be removed

Trigger group

Care must be taken to not loose that little bushing when the trigger group is lifted up.

Stock removed from the rifle.

Since the Rasheed needed cleaning so bad, i removed the rear sight. To remove:
Loosen theses 2 screws

Slide the collars and remove from the sight.

Sight and handguard ferrule can be removed from the rifle.

Once the rear sight removed, the gas tube bushing can be uncrewed with a large screwdriver. With the screwdriver, you turn it clockwise to loosen it than from the other side, can be unscrewed by fingers counter-clockwise.

The received can be cleaned better now.

The collar at the muzzle is reverse threaded.

Bolt disassembly:
The extractor spring must be pryed and pushed foward,after the extractor can be lift out.

After drifting the small pin at the rear of the bolt, the 2 pieces firing pin and spring can be taken out.

After a meticulous cleaning and a bit of oil, the metal turned out very good.

Reassembly is in reverse order for alls components. Of course this time, i did it as far as possible because was sand everywhere... Otherwise, basic cleaning only require the action cover,bolt and carrier out of the rifle. If shooting corrosives ammo, the gas valve should be removed for cleaning.In fact, removing the handguard and gas valve take only a min to do. The gas tube appear to be in stainless, so dont need to be removed after each shooting unless the rifle is put away for long time. Even removing the tube take only a minute. So after cleaning and oiling lightly, my Rasheed is good to go

Hope you find it instructive
Jocelyn

 

[mrclean89]

Wow awesome walkthrough! Thanks!

McLean

 

[flying pig]

Anyone have info on how to properly strip a Garand for cosmo removal?

Wondering if anyone has step by step instructions for stripping a Garand right down? It has cosmo between the gas tube and barrel, on the sight etc, basically in every place it could be that's tougher to get at. The other thread about the Rasheed rifle made me wonder if someone would be willing to do the same for the Garand. Hopefully there isn't one already, I couldn't find what I wanted with the search function and the videos I found on youtube weren't for full disassembly.

Also there is a small crack in the stock beside the receiver. It has been previously repaired with a brass screw. What can I do to ensure that this crack doesn't worsen? Kind of too bad it is there, the rest of the rifle is in very nice shape and all the steel components are the same manufacturer and the stock is numbered to the rifle but the stock has lots of handling dings and the handguards are a different color than the stock.

If anyone can offer up some help I'd sure appreciate it!

 

[svt1940]

Wondering if anyone has step by step instructions for stripping a Garand right down? It has cosmo between the gas tube and barrel, on the sight etc, basically in every place it could be that's tougher to get at. The other thread about the Rasheed rifle made me wonder if someone would be willing to do the same for the Garand. Hopefully there isn't one already, I couldn't find what I wanted with the search function and the videos I found on youtube weren't for full disassembly.

Also there is a small crack in the stock beside the receiver. It has been previously repaired with a brass screw. What can I do to ensure that this crack doesn't worsen? Kind of too bad it is there, the rest of the rifle is in very nice shape and all the steel components are the same manufacturer and the stock is numbered to the rifle but the stock has lots of handling dings and the handguards are a different color than the stock.

If anyone can offer up some help I'd sure appreciate it!

Hmm a Garand striping thread, why not! I'm on it, will post today.
Jocelyn

 

[svt1940]

Garand disassembly

Hi again fellows milsurp lovers. I took time today to do another tutoral about milsurp disassembly so we will have a look on the M1 Garand.

First, open the action to be sure rifle is unloaded.

A Garand tool kit is welcome if you have one but non entirely needed.

First, close the action. To do so, pull back and hold the operating rod, with your other hand, depress the magazine follower and carefully, close the action.

The combo tool is very useful to remove the extractor with the bolt still in the rifle so let's see how to do.

After pulling back the bolt, take the tool and rest the end of the tool(end with the little tang) against the bolt. The little tang must be just under the extractor then push the bolt foward,the tool will enter in the chamber a bit and will stop. Make sure you push the bolt enough so the tool will compress the ejector in the bolt

Screw a section of the cleaning rod in the tool to serve as an handle. Rotate the tool clockwise so the tool tang under the extractor will lift up the extractor from the bolt.

After you can pull the extractor with your finger and also remove the extractor spring/plunger assembly and also the ejector and the ejector spring. When you unlock the extractor, be carefull to not loose the extractor spring or the ejector. Usually thoses will stay there. The firing pin can also be remove now or later, as you wish. To reinstall, put the firing ping in place,there a flat on the firing pin to allow the extractor to be fully seated in the bolt as the extractor lock the firing pin and the ejector in place. So insert the firing pin the proper way in the bolt,the ejector assembly and the extractor spring/plunger. Push the bolt foward to compress the ejector then reinsert the extractor in place. Note that the tang of the tool must be down so you can push down the extractor. The firing pin should move freely.

To remove the stock, graps the rear of the trigger guard and lift up to unlock the trigger group. Trigger group can be pulled out.

Lift up the stock

Op rod spring and magazine follower removal.

Pull the op rod spring guide to disengage from the mag follower arm then remove the spring from the op rod.

Push the op rod catch pin, the pin only goes one way. Remove the pin.

Remove the op rod catch,the follower arm. Note the relation of the parts.

Remove the bullet guide.

Remove the follower

reverse to reassemble.

To remove the gas cylinder, the combo tool is ideal but can possibly made with a large screwdriver.

Unscrew the gas plug.

unscrew and remove the cylinder lock

slide and remove the gas cylinder.

To remove the op rod, there's a notch at the rear of receiver to allow disengaging the rod from the track.

pull the rod up to the notch and disengage from the receiver and from the bolt also then the rod is free from the rifle.

remove the bolt by tilting to the right

Slide the front handguard from the barrel

remove the pin from the handguard ferrule and slide the ferrule away.

slide the rear handguard foward to free it from the barrel.

rear sight removal

First, you may want to count how many click you have from the 100 yds setting to the aperture bottom position. So on reassembly, your zero will be same.

To take it appart: Move the windage fully to the left.
Remove the lock bar or outer nut,depend what model of sight you have. Careful, you may have a little sleeve and a spring. The sleeve have a flat to match the flat portion of the sight pinion.

To remove the graduation disk on the elevation knob,remove the screw and pull out the disk.

Unscrew the windage knob completely,pull out the elevation knob

pull out the apperture

The sight cover can be pryed out aswell.

The end result is a disassembled Garand
I think that's it, quite a long time i didn't take it appart. Hope that help
Jocelyn

 

[toyboy]

Great job!
I've done my fair share of garand stripping(i hope that didn't sound too weird)
I've also built one from parts...

 

[flying pig]

Thanks a bunch for putting the time in to writing that up. Whenever I run out of answers and places to look a CGN member always comes through!

 

[svt1940]

Thanks a bunch for putting the time in to writing that up. Whenever I run out of answers and places to look a CGN member always comes through!

I hope the instructions were clear. Its hard sometimes to take good photo and to explain clearly how to do. If was helpful, i'm glad
Cheers, Jocelyn

 

[Hawkshadow]

Very well done once again Jocelyn. May I suggest adding it to the list in the Firearms Disassembly thread?

 

[svt1940]

Very well done once again Jocelyn. May I suggest adding it to the list in the Firearms Disassembly thread?

Thankyou I may ask to be included and the one i made for the Rasheed in the disassembly thread. Maybe i could spend time with the FN 49 and the AG42b/Hakim
Jocelyn

 

[BadgerDog]

Deleted.. sorry.. wrong thread ...

 

[camster]

The above applies to Ljungman AG-42B n' Hakims too

Ljungman AG-42B doesn't have an adjutable gas port. That screw is peened into place.


...I miss my Rashid!

 

[svt1940]

The above applies to Ljungman AG-42B n' Hakims too

Ljungman AG-42B doesn't have an adjutable gas port. That screw is peened into place.


...I miss my Rashid!

Yes same patern as the ag42/hakim. I tried to get the gas block screw out on the ag but its peened damn tight!I will try to source a spare trigger connector for the Rasheed, if a part can fail, its supposed to be this one. The mag would not work well because the way was pinned but i did it the good way. I hope to give a steady diet of ammo for it soon You sold your Rasheed? How was the reliability and accuracy? Thanks.
Jocelyn

 

[flying pig]

Jocelyn, thanks a lot for the help. I got it all apart no problem and was able to get all the cosmo out, cleaned up some safe kisses a little, fixed a crack in the stock, got rid of a bunch of old varnish on the handguard and re-oiled the stock nicely. Turns out there was a very nice Garand under all that crud! If the weather is sunny tomorrow I may have to post some pictures of it.

On a side note, to anyone else just learning, if you are going to boil cosmo out of parts, maybe don't dis assemble grouped parts first. I took my bolt apart and boiled all the parts together, obviously drying them thoroughly immediately. I lost track of the ejector and it wound up being lost. Lesson learned the hard way on that one. Either that or don"t boil parts small enough to end up down the drain!

Anyway everything else is spotless and re-assembled thanks to this thread, and a quick call to Marstar has a new ejector on the way and I'm only out $11 and a weekend of leaving the Garand at home, so all is well!

Thanks again!

 

[live4therut]

Well done, this should be a sticky

 

[svt1940]

Jocelyn, thanks a lot for the help. I got it all apart no problem and was able to get all the cosmo out, cleaned up some safe kisses a little, fixed a crack in the stock, got rid of a bunch of old varnish on the handguard and re-oiled the stock nicely. Turns out there was a very nice Garand under all that crud! If the weather is sunny tomorrow I may have to post some pictures of it.

On a side note, to anyone else just learning, if you are going to boil cosmo out of parts, maybe don't dis assemble grouped parts first. I took my bolt apart and boiled all the parts together, obviously drying them thoroughly immediately. I lost track of the ejector and it wound up being lost. Lesson learned the hard way on that one. Either that or don"t boil parts small enough to end up down the drain!

Anyway everything else is spotless and re-assembled thanks to this thread, and a quick call to Marstar has a new ejector on the way and I'm only out $11 and a weekend of leaving the Garand at home, so all is well!

Thanks again!

I hope to see pics soon To clean small parts, i use i bit of lacquer thinner in a small glass bowl and with a little nylon brush, i clean the part and put them in a safe place until i get ready to reassemble, of course very hot soapy water work well and is ecological.
Jocelyn

 

[flying pig]

Thanks for the tip! Definitely learned my lesson on that one, I knew better but guess it was just one of those things.

 

[svt1940]

Thanks for the tip! Definitely learned my lesson on that one, I knew better but guess it was just one of those things.

Pleasure was mine I have updated fews pics on the rear sight disassembly, about the elevation disk removal. Only need to remove a screw but i forgot to tell about. Now that i made the corrections, i'm happy with the tutoral
Jocelyn