Engine move

[damo]

Having worried about the job for months, it actually went very easily this afternoon /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif A railtrack of ply and boards across the garden, a ramp up 3 steps, and then quite a steep path. The local authority kindly supplied the tree for the chain hoist /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The engine is now delivered back to the boat. Yaaay

 

[Csail]

How much was the release fee for the clamp? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Sorry none of us are visiting but weather is terrible so see you soonish.
Andy.

 

[NickiCrutchfield]

Nice one Damo.

 

[graham]

Is there a convenient tree by the boat? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[damo]

No tree, but there is a convenient crane /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[damo]

And using the convenient crane and Rich, who stayed after work, we got the engine back in sweet as a sweet thing, in 15 mins (good job I made a jig for the positions of the mounts before I took them out /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

And I bought another OM636 today, for spares, which has just been lifted out of a boat which is being re-engined.

Damn fine day all in all /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Who]

So when does your boat go back in the water?

You must be missing it by now

 

[graham]

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Damn fine day all in all

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Nice one Damo. Glad it all went well. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Allan]

Well done mate, how long before you are sailing again?
Allan

 

[damo]

Well, I'm blocked in again for a couple of weeks, but that just means I can do the wiring and other bits and bobs, maybe even get the engine running before I launch.

It was important to get the engine in before tomorrow otherwise I wouldn't have had room to get the machinery in, after the next boat comes out. As it was I had to take down the stb cap shroud to make room for the telehandler boom!