Tech Tip: Ruger 10/22 Basic Maintenance
hi Caleb with Brownells here and in today's video we're going to be going through basic maintenance on your Ruger 1022 or your brown house brn 22 or pretty much any of the Ruger 1022 clones out there all right so uh with that being said let's just jump right into it obviously first thing you want to do is to make sure your firearm is indeed unloaded if you have a magazine in it go ahead remove that magazine pull pull your bolt back and visually inspect your chamber all right now want you're sure that the firearm is indeed unloaded uh we can go through the basic disassembly so the great thing about this all you're going to need really is one tool and uh depending on you know how how you have it set up we'll we'll get into that in detail in a bit but first thing you need to do if you look at the bottom of your stock here right in front of your magazine well you'll have a screw uh some of you may have a uh slotted screw in there some of you may have a Allen screw like this one here uh so we're just going to go ahead and grab the appropriate wrench which is not that one all right and we're going to go ahead and unscrew it now in most cases once you get it unscrewed from the receiver it'll still be retained in the stock so if you want to take the screw all the way out you need to pull it and keep screwing but honestly uh you don't need to once it's out of the receiver and it moves back and forth just like that right there uh you can leave it that's good all right and then from here we can now pull our barreled action out of the stock now the important thing right here is to make sure our safety is in the middle position so right in between on and off uh reason being because right here it'll hit the stock if you push it the other way it'll still hit the stock so it has to be in that middle position just like so and then all you need to do is lift up on your barrel and it'll come out the stock just like that all right now if you have a factory Ruger setup uh chances are your buffer and your pins are trying to fall out at this point that's okay you can go ahead and remove those uh ours right here we have we have aftermarket pins and aftermarket buffer uh and they're a bit tighter of a fit so they're staying in so we're going to go ahead and need a punch to remove those if you have a setup like this you'll probably need a punch as well um but if you have a factory Ruger one chances are they're just falling out if not just take a small punch and just push them out you shouldn't even need a hammer honestly uh so what I'm going to do at this point is go ahead and knock these out all right so we'll just grab a bench block you don't need a bench block you can use a block of wood you know whatever you have on hand and we'll just grab a punch here and we'll just knock these pins out and as I mentioned Factory Ruger setup if you just kind of tilt it and Shake It They'll they'll typically fall out all right so once you remove this front and rear bottom pin here your trigger group will come right out okay and then in order to get our bolts out we have to make sure that buffer comes out and this one is one of the um rubberized ones so they tend to be in there pretty good so we'll just knock that out real quick all right there we go all right now we don't need any more tools and like I said if you have a factory Ruger set up the only thing you need is for that stock screw okay so that buffer was preventing the bolt from coming back far enough to be removed okay well with that buffer gone obviously we can remove it in order to do that what we need to do is pull our charging handle all the way back as far as it'll go and then take your bolts and lift up on it what I like to do is take my index finger put it on that bolt face right there and just kind of lift up and it'll come right out just like that now all you need to do is gently let off of that charging handle and it'll come right out of the receiver right I pulled it right out of that ejection port and this can stay together don't don't try to take this apart okay and for basic maintenance that's as far apart as you need to go that's it all right so um honestly let's just start with the trigger group all you really need to do with this is just wipe it down that's it so that hammer right there just wipe the face of it and do that uh do that on safety CU if you're on fire and you accidentally hit that trigger that hammer is going to come forward and and it'll it'll smack you right so I just put it on safe wipe it down you can lift up your your ejector will kind of flop around here you can lift that up wipe that off as well all right and your ejector sits in this little slot right here we'll just put that back home right there all right and that's how it has to be when you reinstall it or else you'll have some issues getting it back together all right and once that's just wiped down we can set that aside all right now let's jump over to our bolt now your bolts is going to have your extractor on it right which is this claw right here that's what pulls your cartridge off the chamber okay and then you're also going to have your firing pin on top and that's going to move back and forth just like that so what we're going to do here and if you shoot it a lot obviously it's going to get Pretty Dirty so what I like to do is take some solvents uh such as hoppies number nine I use hoppies number n for almost everything and I'll just pour a little bit into the cap here don't dip your brush into your your container because then you contaminate everything and it's a it's a whole thing so just put a little bit somewhere and we're not going to pour this cap stuff back into that container either don't do that once this is used it's used all right so we'll dip her brush in there and the main areas you really need to get are this face right here that's where most of your you're fing and your carbon buildup and stuff like that's going to be and we'll just scrub the bottom as well just scrub the whole thing just look where it's dirty and uh clean it on off that's all you really need to do we'll scrub that up real good now we need to get off as much of this hoppies number nine as we can just wipe it all down all right and this bolt is clean this is a new bolt but the inside of this receiver and this Barrel is not so they're they're still pretty dirty all right so we're going to wipe this down and we'll go through actual the lubrication of these parts whenever we put everything back together for now we're just going to clean them and set them aside uh same thing with the charging handle and guide rod honestly unless there's like noticeably Caked Up stuff on there I don't even hit it with the brush I'll just wipe it down real good with a bag and we're just going to wipe it back and forth here and you can kind of take your your guide rode assembly and to press it and just kind of look and see you know if there's excess of buildup on there if so you can actually just kind of take this on a counter or something like that push that charging handle down and then use your rag to to wipe that and that's a good way to go about doing that so we'll just set that aside side once we got that done now we can move on to the really dirty part and that's going to be the inside of your receiver so you can see on this one here I have some oil that's kind of mixing with all that that carbon build up that that Grime uh getting pretty gross there and then going up to the face around that chamber is pretty dirty too so again I'm going to take my brush with my hoppies number n or your favorite solvent which I think hoppies number n is everyone one's favorite solvent right all right and we're just going to scrub and if you're using like an aerosol or something like that like a like gun scrubber um of those like heavy Degreaser types and you're just blasting it all out that's perfectly fine what I like to do if I'm doing that is to take an aerosol oil like Rim oil or something like that and just spray a really light coat of that on there uh to kind of rehydrate the metal and everything because that Degreaser absolutely sucks everything out of it and then uh that's not even like part of my lubrication process I'll just go ahead and spray everything to get it nice and I say I use the term rehydrated because that's I mean that's what it looks like all right and we'll just once we got it scrubbed with our brush we'll just take our Rag and wipe out the inside of our receiver the best we can here and you don't have to go too crazy on it cuz we're going to have to wipe it out again and I'll I'll show you why here and if you have some you can also use the uh like Q-tips and things like that to get in there and kind of help you get those hard to reach areas okay so at this point I'm going to show you a few different things here so actually I'm going to pull it out and show you real quick if you have a factory Ruger receiver yours is not going to have this hole in the back this hole uh is put into this aftermarket Brown Na's receiver specifically for cleaning this Barrel Okay the reason is because anytime you can you want to cllean clean your Barrel you want to run your brushes your patches Jags all that stuff in from the chamber okay whenever you're cleaning your barrel and that's why we have that hole so we can just go all the way through the back on your factory Ruger receiver obviously you can't get into that chamber area uh without going in through the front the reason going in through the front is uh less desirable is because of your crown your crown is this area right here at the end of your muzzle right whever that rifling in your Barrel transitions to the face of the barrel that's the crown the crown is the last little bit of input your Barrel has on that bullet before it leaves and that is it's extremely important that it's nice and concentric free of any dings and and and just any kind of uh damage because if there's a little ding or a little bit of damage or that edge has rolled over it will affect your accuracy no doubt about it and when you're cleaning it's easy to damage it even if you're using brass because that's such a sharp edge there uh it's easy it's easy to damage that Crown so I'm going to start by showing you how to clean it from the muzzle end very carefully okay and also if you have a factory Ruger 1022 receiver and you want to drill that hole in the back uh Brown L's actually sells a fixture to help you do that without absolutely ruining it and maybe maybe we'll do that at some point in the future here U but just know that it it does exist and you can convert a Ruger one to have the hole in the back all right so all right we're just going to set that aside I'm dipping the wrong brush here so I'm just going to take my 22 caliber brush okay this is a this this is a dewy coated Rod uh but you can use your favorite cleaning rod and I put a little bit of hoppies on there um so you can use hoppies that'll work just fine or if you want to be even more aggressive with the cleaning I say more aggressive like it's a bad thing it's definitely not um if you have a really dirty barrel uh with a lot of lead and stuff like that in there bortech makes this Rimfire blend specifically for all the nasty stuff those uh Rimfire cartridges can produce and I'm just going to put some of that on my brush here all right it's dripping on the table that's okay and if you're coming in from the muzzle with every every time you put it in there you got to be very careful so the brush goes in just fine right and the danger area is whenever you start getting to this transition from the brush uh to the the actual piece that's holding your bristles right cuz that's going to kind of want to run into that that muzzle Crown there so what you need to do is carefully guide it in okay don't go too fast here and then your next area is where the brush screws on to your Rod be careful in that area as well once you get past those two areas you can run it all the way in all right and there you go all right now it's inside of the receiver so when those bristles I'll show you here when these bristles Break Free of that chamber they sling stuff all over the inside of the receiver um which is why you're going to have to wipe it out again anyway all right and you pull your brush back through and for the rest of this let me get this out of here all right we'll pull that out for the rest of this we're going to go in through the receiver okay and there's no science as to like how many times you have to run it through here there's no set number that's going to get your Barrel clean I just like to do probably between 7 to 10 and about halfway through I'll push my brush in just a little bit then I'll put some more solvents on there and you definitely like I know we did the receiver first and then the barrel you don't have to do it in that order you can you can absolutely do the the barrel first and then clean the receiver all right now I'm just going to take a rag wipe that Rod off unscrew the brush all right now we're going to screw on our Jag or if you're using a slotted patch holder you know whatever you're using we'll screw that on now the first thing I do is I will run a dry patch through there all right push that patch all the way through and you'll end up with something just like that all that fing and lead and all that that nasty stuff on there all right then we'll pull our Jag back through put another patch on if you're using a slotted uh type patch holder when you push it through uh go ahead and pull the patch off and then run it back through empty and I'll run two maybe three we'll look and see how we're doing here yeah two will be fine so noticebly less stuff on there right uh so what I'll do with this point is I will take some oil let me grab my oil here put my patch on the Jag and put the oil on all right and we'll run it through just like so and this uh this oil this is the Suns of Liberty spec 7 6 oil it's a really good oil um but the like biggest complaint people have with it is that it's not clear um honestly for me I'd rather I don't care if it's clear or not I just care that it's a really good gun oil right um so you can't see how clean or dirty your Barrel is but honestly uh you went from this to this in one patch so it's a lot cleaner than it was and it's plenty clean for all intents and purposes whenever I'm cleaning a barrel I never try to get the patch 100 % white when it comes out the other end um that's that's not a big deal if you spend all day trying to chase that patch uh you're cleaning your firearm's going to be way more frustrating than it needs to be it doesn't have to be the patches the point I'm trying to make here is the patches do not have to come out looking like this all right that don't try and Chase that okay so with that being said uh we ran an oil patch through our Barrel now it's nice and and lubricated and clean and protected right so we're we're done with the barrel that's all we need to do and what you can actually do is take your Rag and just wipe off that Crown area cuz chances are there's some junk on there from the brush going through right and that's nice and clean all right now let's just wipe out this receiver again and just cleaning that up there all right and that's looking pretty good now if you notice on the inside of your receiver there's where where you can see metal from the anodizer wearing off uh you have a steel bolt rubbing against an aluminum receiver that's perfectly normal don't Don't Panic All right that's all good okay so that is it for our barrel and receiver assembly that was super easy right uh the stock Stock's basically just going to be all cosmetic stuff you know if you've got some dirt on the outside you know whatever you take your brush and scrub it and wipe it off that's no big deal now you shouldn't have any fing or anything like that in the receiver now if you see anything that's that's there just just swipe it out sometimes it'll be like grass or whatever in there especially if you're using your gun for hunting all right so uh let's go through lubrication and reassembly really that's all that's left and I should also note uh you can if you want to take the barrel out to clean it undo these two screws check our build series on how to do all that stuff but um the issue there is that if you have an optic uh you're probably going to lose zero if you pull this Barrel out okay so keep that in mind okay now uh the reassembly is the reverse order of the disassembly so what we're going to do is get this charging handle back in first all right and lubrication points on this so if you look at your charging handle there's a groove cut in one piece and a step in the other so This Groove if you lay receiver upside down this groove that's cut in there is always going to be facing upwards right cuz if you look at your bolts and understanding how everything works and and fits together is is key to understanding how to put it back together right so I always like to stress that that Groove is clearance for your firing pin on your bolt because this is going to lay just like this whenever it's inside the firearm Okay so all we're going to do is just put a few drops of oil going down the spring on the guide ride here and whenever we work our action back and forth after the reassembly this will all get spread out where it needs to be and I'll just put a little bit of oil going across the top here and you don't really need to put any on the bottom especially don't put lot I just do one little drop right there all right now we can reinsert this into the receiver which is how we pulled it out but you need to take note that the tail right here uh watch where this tail is going cuz there's a slot in your receiver specifically for it it's going to go into that little pocket right there okay and just push your charging handle in all the way like that now our bolt all right where I'm going to lubricate our bolt I'm going to put a few drops of oil on the top here few drops on this side piece right here same thing on the opposite side and some going down the side here okay and then Dro or two on the bottom will be all right just put a few down there and for the ones on the bottom I just like to take my finger and just kind of rub them in there get that oil nice and spread out do the same thing on the main side the opposite side uh the ones on the post here you can just kind of leave you don't need to really rub that too much all right now that your hands are nice and slippery try to hold on to your gun and remember how we had to pull that charging handle all the way back to get the bolts out we need to do the same thing to get it back in all right so what I like to do for this is to actually take my index finger grab the front of that charging handle to help me slide it all the way back I'll slide it back as far as it'll go and then grab it from the outside just like this and then you can take your bolts and just set it straight down into there and you're going to have to once you're at this point right here the back's kind of in there take your index finger again and just kind of manipulate that with the charging handle to get it to fall back into place and you'll fill it snap back into place when it does just like that there it went then you can let off your charging handle and now your bolts reinstalled okay and it's it may may take you a few tries to get it that's okay you you'll uh as you do the more you do it the easier it will become okay so from here uh what I'm going to go ahead and do is reinstall my bolt buffer and if you have a factory one it'll just probably fall right into there all right I'm going to need to give mine a little tap here all right there we go and that should be sitting nice and flush now for your trigger mechanism what I'm going to do is take a little bit of oil put it on the face of the hammer cuz as your gun Cycles your bolt is pushing back that hammer and rubbing against it that's a big friction area and you side your firearm okay and uh on your uh trigger mechanism here that's really the only place you need to put any kind of lubricant uh I would advise if you're using one of those aerosol degreasers I would advise staying away from the trigger mechanism with that uh just because there's so many small parts that need to be relubricated inside of here and you can't always always get to it okay without taking it completely apart uh also if you notice on the front of your hammer uh your trigger if you're using a factory trigger yours is going to look a little bit different than this one that's okay that's your sear engagement that's where your trigger uh is engaging your Hammer so if you put a little bit right there it'll help out with that trigger pull just a hair okay all right and that's all there is to it for the trigger mechanism you don't need to pull all this stuff apart and do any of that for basic maintenance and now we just need to drop this back onto the receiver now as I mentioned before this ejector kind of wants to flop around there so I'm just going to hold it with my index finger as I rotate down and then you can let go of it and for this we're just going to take our pins just line up the holes with the trigger to the holes in the receiver and push these guys back in here I'm going need to persuade this one a little bit get those pins nice and flush if you're having trouble getting your pins in uh you can pull back on your bolt just a little bit and often times that'll help your trigger mechanism seat where it needs to be and uh we didn't have that issue here but if you do uh that's the remedy for it right okay now we need to just uh at this point just do a visual inspection on the outside of it you know wipe off any junk there um I have some looks like some dirt or something in the writing on my receiver I'm just going to kind of scrub that out of there wipe it down just like that all right and to get this back into the stock again you got to put that safety in the middle position just like so then if you notice there's a step this little cutout right here on the back that's going to key into a notch inside of your stock so you got to come back at an angle hook that backside in and then close down on your Barrel just like so and then from here tighten that screw back down nice and snug if you're using a wrench like this make sure you have clearance for that trigger there all right and if you want to actually put a torque wrench on that um about 30in pan will be just fine okay now we need to do a quick function check make sure everything's working the way it should be so what I'm going to do is put my firearm on safe turn that safety on and [ __ ] that charging handle this is spreading around that lubrication right all right now with the safety on pull the trigger nothing should happen no click no nothing turn the safety off you should hear that click that's that hammer falling at this point I'm going to [ __ ] it and I'm going to pull that trigger again don't let go of the trigger leave it depressed now we're going to check the disconnector okay and what that I'll show you what that is is um the best way to tell you what it is is just show you what it does okay so with the trigger depressed pull that charging handle back let it go forward and slowly let off the trigger you should hear a click that's your disconnector so now it reset that hammer in here so that you can now fire it again so at this point put it back on safe nothing should happen and that's all there is to it all right so that is basic maintenance on the Ruger 1022 and brn 22 and pretty much all the Clones all right if you have any questions or comments uh preferred cleaning solution anything like that and you're watching this on YouTube feel free to drop them in the comments below if you have any questions feel free to give us call on the tech line we'll be happy to help you out thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time
2024-04-27 03:18
