Help getting brake off....

[T Bone]

What in the Tonya Harding?!

Ruger MPR brake. One piece. Not staked.

Torched it.

Can't. Get. It. Off.

Any ideas?

 

[buckbull]

Slap a cheater pipe on that wrench?

 

[brockel]

Torch to warm it up and smack wrench with hammer. The smack is what usually breaks it loose

 

[mtmuley]

Torch to warm it up and smack wrench with hammer. The smack is what usually breaks it loose

Yep. Haven't done a gun barrel, but sometimes smaller taps work better than a heavy strike. At least in my car wrenching. mtmuley

 

[brockel]

Yep. Haven't done a gun barrel, but sometimes smaller taps work better than a heavy strike. At least in my car wrenching. mtmuley

Unless it’s a tikka. The bigger the hammer the better my god those things are stubborn

 

[T Bone]

Wheee. Smacking soft....no good.

Big whacks worked!

Tonya Harding knows things!

Thanks for the help!

 

[antelopedundee]

A BFH has its usefulness!

 

[archery22]

Add a few drops of Kroil to the brake and a cheater bar.

 

[sccritterkiller]

Aluminum jaw inserts for a bench vice are a big help in removing brakes and bird cages. I don't know what they use on the MP 15-22s but it toughest factory installed muzzle device I have ever removed.

 

[nhenry]

Had no problem getting the brake off my MPR… it actually came loose in the box. I took that barrel off and replaced it with a 6.5 Grendel as soon as I got it. Glad you got yours off I would have suggested a dead blow hammer and a cheater bar to keep tension on it between blows

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Do companies put some thread lock on them or was it just carbon build up that did it?

 

[elevatorman]

When you do get it off there, put some antisieze on it before reassembling it. Coppers better. Nickles best.

 

[Maverick1]

Great to hear! I ran across this a few years ago and ended up doing the same thing after soaking it in liquid wrench for a bit. Probably not the best idea, but the cheater bar worked it's magic.