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I spent this afternoon trying to fit an autopilot drive. Replacing a pin took I don’t know how long as I struggled to remove a split pin that was holding it in place. It was behind one of the engines and on the underside of the ram so I was working by feel and one or two iPhone photos. The air was blue and I got to the point where I was thinking that it was impossible, so what was I going to do.
I rallied and with a pair of slim/pointed molegeips I prevailed!
The only saving grace is that the engine bay on our S34 is probably the most spacious that we have had, but even so I am bearing the scars of the afternoons work and when I finished I was knackered.
What a feckin’ shenanigans!
Simple solution as you slap on the "Ralgex" , rearrange the following words..... Aftssh.
F you didn’t eat all my barbecued food and drank my beer ,you would be able to get in such places,SS
Vas it's amazing how dextrous you can become threading bolts at awkward angles, blind, and at full reach. All you have to do is drop them a couple times into the bilge sump and spend a couple hours with a magnet on a long piece of wire before you realise they are stainless steel. Then dismantle more engine bits so you can get your hand down. Then learn to pick them up between pinkie and ring finger because that is as far as you can reach. You only have to slip a ring spanner off a stiff bolt a couple times and smack your knuckles with all your strength released into something hard and sharp before you learn by feel if the spanner is indeed snug and you are pulling or pushing at the correct angle.
Getting to all the usual service bits are easy enough. It's when you have to do anything on the transom shield it's really an engine out jobbie. As that is not possible for me until long after the season starts I have no option but to wedge myself in and evolve an additional pair of elbows.
Anyway
Once again thank you VolvoPaul. Weetabix for breakfast and a bit more gusto the hydraulic line came out. :encouragement:
Replaced it and what do you know.....
It wasn't my old line leaking, it was my brand new ram. So spent the day removing the ram again. Nothing ever goes right with boats does it? I also suppose now that it has been filled with oil (although removed now) I will have my work cut out trying to return it. C'est la vie. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (and in this case poorer)
