Garand, Firearm Manuals
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How to: Disassemble and
Reassemble the M1 Garand.
So, you just purchased a surplus Garand or one of the many new Garands
being offered on the market?
Uses of the
M1 Garand
Original Combination
Maintenance Tool
Remove and replace the
gas cylinder lock screw
and various other screws;
and seat the rear sight
base
Don't know how to dissemble it beyond the typical field stripping?
Learn how to - here at Surplus rifle with a hands-on, "step by step" article
on how to disassemble and reassemble (as General George S. Patton
described it)
"The greatest battle implement ever devised"
.
Extract the cartridge case
remove pins and
assemble the extractor
and ejector
Legend 1
Assemble and
disassemble the extractor
and ejector without
removing the bolt from
the rifle
Clean the chamber of the
barrel
Install the extractor spring
and plunger
Legend 2
Legend 3
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Legend 4
Legend 5
To properly disassemble an M1
Garand you need a slotted screw
driver, a needle nose pliers, a small
punch, a medium punch, and an M1
Garand Original Combination
Maintenance Tool.
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If you don't have an
M1 Garand
Original Combination Maintenance
Tool, you can find one at
.
Use the slotted screwdriver to pull
trigger housing guard to rear and then
downward.
Remove the trigger assembly by
grasping trigger guard and pulling
down and away from the rifle.
Remove receiver and barrel from
stock by pulling up and away from
stock.
Displayed in
Figure 6
. is the M1
Garand field stripped into it's three
main parts: 1) receiver and barrel
assembly, 2) stock, and 3) the trigger
assembly.
Using the slotted screwdriver
attachment on the Garand Tool,
unscrew the gas cylinder screw at the
end of the gas cylinder. The use of the
Garand Tool is reccommended to do
this task because of the size of the
slots in the end of the screw would
require a very large slotted
screwdriver, which most people don't
have on hand. Also the handle can be
turned to a right angle to the screw
driver, which gives considerably more
torque than a normal screwdriver.
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Finish unscrewing the gas cylinder
lock using your hand.
Carefully remove gas cylinder from
rifle barrel and gas piston.
Slide front hand guard forward and
remove from barrel.
With receiver bottom facing up, use
the needle nose pliers and disconnect
the follower rod from the follower arm
in the receiver.
Once the follower arm is disconnected
from follower arm, remove the follower
rod and spring by pulling out of
operating rod.
While holding the operating rod
handle, pull back to rear of receiver,
then pull up and then forward.
Pull bolt almost all the way to the rear
of the receiver and then you can pull
up and out of the receiver.
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Figure 15
shows the position of the
rear hand guard, lower band retaining
pin. The barrel should be pointing to
the right to remove pin.
Use the medium punch to tap pin out
of lower band, you may have to use
the small punch to finish guiding pin
out of band.
Using the needle nose pliers - finish
removing retaining Pin.
Slide lower band from barrel and set
aside.
The rear Hand guard is now free to
slide off of the barrel. Pull hand guard
forward to around 3 inches forward of
original positions and remove.
Lightly punch out follower arm pin
from receiver.
Finish removing follower arm pin by
pulling from other side of receiver.
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