Rem 597 VTR Hanguard removal and Swapping Issues

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Hello I am in the process of swapping over my stock Rem handguard to a Yankee Hill one, I am having a problem taking apart the stock pieces to use with the new ones. It seems as if the standard AR looking Rem jam nut and handguard is held to the receiver buy a threaded pipe, so the handguard is actually the threaded pipe, the jam nut and the floating handguard. The problem we are having is we have tried everything possible to remove the threaded pipe from the Rem jam nut, all we need is that one piece to come off then we can use it in the Yankee Hill jam nut. There is a chance I am doing this all wrong so if anyone that has made this swap and can give me some pointers that would be great.

I have added some pics I found online of how it should properly all come apart, where my handguard just screws out all in one piece and thats it.

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Cheers,
Evan
 
I just put a Yankee Hill float tube on my VTR. Used a torch to heat up the stock remington float tube and remove it with thick leather and a pipe wrench. The next problem was removing the threaded nipple piece from the Rem. barrel nut. Needless to say, I need to order a new barrel nut from Remington if I ever want to put the stock float tube back on.
 
Yep, Rancourts VTR was a ##### to work on. Remington used red Loctite on everything but the threaded nipple. Even after heat and a big pipe wrench the tube screamed coming off.
 
So did you use the heat and tourch method to remove the threaded piece also from
the barrel nut, all I need is that piece if I ruined the rest of the stock stuff so be it.
Is there a way or place to buy a new threaded piece so I can leave the stock stuff
alone and reusable for future use.

Cheers,
Evan

ChavalierRancourt said:
I just put a Yankee Hill float tube on my VTR. Used a torch to heat up the stock remington float tube and remove it with thick leather and a pipe wrench. The next problem was removing the threaded nipple piece from the Rem. barrel nut. Needless to say, I need to order a new barrel nut from Remington if I ever want to put the stock float tube back on.
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I also helped Rancourt with that float tube removal and when you get it to the point in your third photo we used a piece of leather about 3/16 of an inch thick, wrapped it around those exposed threads and used vice grips to spin it off. It worked great.
 
We are going to give the heat a try asap, I was also told that if you cool the threaded part in water after it's heated it will help loosen it up also. Mine is actually opposite of the third pic ours came out in the barrel nut and the handguard not the reciever, hopefully we won't mess it all up but I'm sure it will be ok.

beachead said:
I also helped Rancourt with that float tube removal and when you get it to the point in your third photo we used a piece of leather about 3/16 of an inch thick, wrapped it around those exposed threads and used vice grips to spin it off. It worked great.
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The one I am trying to put on ins the Spector and I know it will work forsure, it's just getting to that point thats fun.

Satain said:
When it looks like this you can put on any AR15 handguards set.
Is this the handguard set that you are going to put on?
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Cheers,
Evan
 
I changed mine a couple of nights ago. I had no issues with removing the tube, but the nut was a little tricky. I found a pin wrench from a 6" angle grinder that fit. A couple of solid hits on the wrench broke the nut free.

After that, everything was easy.

What a great change in the looks of the rifle.
 
Ok sounds like everybody is able to change there handguards over with relative easy, so why did my threaded piece come out of the receiver and stay in the barrel nut? I might try to loctite the threaded piece back in the receiver and try to remove the barrel nut again.

Cheers,
Evan
 
Finally got it out and fixed with the help of the info given here thanks allot to everyonr. So we heated everything up, used a leather belt and vise grips, lots of muscle maybe as suggested but it tool three times and then it finally came free. We clamped and twisted to hard we flattened the threads of the threaded pipe, so we spent more time fixing that mistake before we could screw the piece into the barrel nut so we could finally put it all together.

Sorry for the bad pics but they do the job.

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Cheers,
Evan
 
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