sailaboutvic
Well-known member
Volvo MD 2030
Probably some reading this have done the job before other have read how to do it but never have ,
Then there tho who are maybe thinking of doing it.
This posting is directed at them .
It’s a job in over 40 years of boat ownership I not done .
I read about it and it sound an easy job and is if there wasn’t a engine in the way .
Let me say from the start you really need two people one with child size hands .
I marked the foot print of each mount and measured the hight of each one ,
The plan was to fit the new ones how the old once came out , let me say now it didn’t work .
But before I get into that I needed to remove the old once’s .
Each mount is held in the engine bed with two bolts with locking nuts ,
To get to each nuts there a hole in the side of the engine bed to place the spanner in , here the problem , the holes are not in line with the nuts plus the engine sump doesn’t leave you much room to get a normal spanner in ,
You really need one with a bit of a kink in some of the holes ,
You also need very small hands to be able to remove the nuts and washer , child like hands , your mostly end up dropping the nuts or washer or both inside the engine bed resets,
I put rags in there to catch them but sod law there end up in the engine bed never to Be found again , luckily the nuts are mild steel and a magnet manage to find most of them but not after what seen hours moving the magnet back and fro on a string from one hole to the next.
In the end we only lost one of each .
You don’t need a jack as some people say who really never done the job them self just read about it ,
anyway there no way you could get a jack in there .
a long lump of wood is enough to lift he engine so you can block it .
The rear mount I remove the bracket from the engine , just three bolts .
The front I manage to get the engine high enough to slid them out.
Don’t ask how we manage to locat the nuts and washer back on , by luck more then anything.
I used tape on the washers to cover most of the hole so the tape would grab on the bolt thread ,
my wife squeezed how much of her hand in the hole balancing it on the tip of her finger push it back up the thread the tape kept it there ,
She probably drop each nut three or four times balancing it on the tip of her finger while I slowly turn the bolt for it to catch .
In the end after a lots of F words and hours we manage to finish it .
Lining up the engine was some thing else .
Although the mounts where in the Same place and hight the shaft was way out .
To get it to line up the front engine sat on the mounts not a good move .
Thanks to chrome Dome from here who send me a page from the MD 2003 Manuel which give reference to how the engine sit I set the mounts up to 85mm ( not the hight there where at ) from the top of the engine bed to the bottom of the engine mounts brackets as a starting point ,
This mean the shaft coupling was around 1 cm lower then the engine coupling this was about right when you think about the weight of the shaft ,
Lifting the shaft slightly match it nicely
From. There on it was easy to match up the gap in between both coupling with feeler gauge, adjusting front and back mounts a little .
This posting maybe long , but no where near how long the job took to do.
If I had to do it again I would hire a child for the day .
Why they couldn’t
( A )cut the holes where the nuts are on the engine bed only two was nearly in line , some where 2 cm away .
(B) cut four hole on each side instead of three
And (C) make the hole slightly bigger , for the F of me I can’t work it out what these so call professionals are thinking off .
let me say I nearly give up trying to do the job and paying someone .
Best of luck tho thinking of doing the job.
Probably some reading this have done the job before other have read how to do it but never have ,
Then there tho who are maybe thinking of doing it.
This posting is directed at them .
It’s a job in over 40 years of boat ownership I not done .
I read about it and it sound an easy job and is if there wasn’t a engine in the way .
Let me say from the start you really need two people one with child size hands .
I marked the foot print of each mount and measured the hight of each one ,
The plan was to fit the new ones how the old once came out , let me say now it didn’t work .
But before I get into that I needed to remove the old once’s .
Each mount is held in the engine bed with two bolts with locking nuts ,
To get to each nuts there a hole in the side of the engine bed to place the spanner in , here the problem , the holes are not in line with the nuts plus the engine sump doesn’t leave you much room to get a normal spanner in ,
You really need one with a bit of a kink in some of the holes ,
You also need very small hands to be able to remove the nuts and washer , child like hands , your mostly end up dropping the nuts or washer or both inside the engine bed resets,
I put rags in there to catch them but sod law there end up in the engine bed never to Be found again , luckily the nuts are mild steel and a magnet manage to find most of them but not after what seen hours moving the magnet back and fro on a string from one hole to the next.
In the end we only lost one of each .
You don’t need a jack as some people say who really never done the job them self just read about it ,
anyway there no way you could get a jack in there .
a long lump of wood is enough to lift he engine so you can block it .
The rear mount I remove the bracket from the engine , just three bolts .
The front I manage to get the engine high enough to slid them out.
Don’t ask how we manage to locat the nuts and washer back on , by luck more then anything.
I used tape on the washers to cover most of the hole so the tape would grab on the bolt thread ,
my wife squeezed how much of her hand in the hole balancing it on the tip of her finger push it back up the thread the tape kept it there ,
She probably drop each nut three or four times balancing it on the tip of her finger while I slowly turn the bolt for it to catch .
In the end after a lots of F words and hours we manage to finish it .
Lining up the engine was some thing else .
Although the mounts where in the Same place and hight the shaft was way out .
To get it to line up the front engine sat on the mounts not a good move .
Thanks to chrome Dome from here who send me a page from the MD 2003 Manuel which give reference to how the engine sit I set the mounts up to 85mm ( not the hight there where at ) from the top of the engine bed to the bottom of the engine mounts brackets as a starting point ,
This mean the shaft coupling was around 1 cm lower then the engine coupling this was about right when you think about the weight of the shaft ,
Lifting the shaft slightly match it nicely
From. There on it was easy to match up the gap in between both coupling with feeler gauge, adjusting front and back mounts a little .
This posting maybe long , but no where near how long the job took to do.
If I had to do it again I would hire a child for the day .
Why they couldn’t
( A )cut the holes where the nuts are on the engine bed only two was nearly in line , some where 2 cm away .
(B) cut four hole on each side instead of three
And (C) make the hole slightly bigger , for the F of me I can’t work it out what these so call professionals are thinking off .
let me say I nearly give up trying to do the job and paying someone .
Best of luck tho thinking of doing the job.
