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02-13-2009, 07:04 PM
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Savage bolt disassembly
Ok, I've been dying to try my Savage M 16 on a live target, so I've been dragging it around with me, in the truck, for the last week. Today, I finally got a chance to pop a cap, on a coyote, and all I got was a click.  Obviously, the rifle is cold soaked and I need to de-grease the bolt. Before I get a big Allen wrench and take the cap off the back, I thought it might be smarter to ask, what was involved. Thanks.
Grizz
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02-14-2009, 07:38 PM
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 Hope this works for you.
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02-14-2009, 08:13 PM
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If you don't want to take your bolt apart, gush it with WD-40, and wash everything out of it. WD-40 is a dry lubricant. The liquid part of it is only a solvent that soon evaporates, leaving the silicon based dry lubricant behind. If you've put oil on there, WD-40 will soon wash it out, and then evaporate, and leave the silicates behind. In an enclosed space, (like the close tolerances between the parts of your bolt), where there is little or no air movement, it will take a long time for the inside of your bolt to dry out. Not particularly bad, as long as it works properly. Once it does dry out in a year or two, well, maybe do it right and disassemble it, clean it up nice and put it back together with a lube that won't stiff-up in the cold.
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02-14-2009, 08:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kissacoyote
If you don't want to take your bolt apart, gush it with WD-40, and wash everything out of it. WD-40 is a dry lubricant. The liquid part of it is only a solvent that soon evaporates, leaving the silicon based dry lubricant behind. If you've put oil on there, WD-40 will soon wash it out, and then evaporate, and leave the silicates behind. In an enclosed space, (like the close tolerances between the parts of your bolt), where there is little or no air movement, it will take a long time for the inside of your bolt to dry out. Not particularly bad, as long as it works properly. Once it does dry out in a year or two, well, maybe do it right and disassemble it, clean it up nice and put it back together with a lube that won't stiff-up in the cold.
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Be warned however, that WD40 is very bad for bolts and cold weather!! 
it will make a bolt as sluggish as mud in December!
Cat
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02-14-2009, 09:56 PM
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