Friday, December 3, 2010

Out comes the Engine!!

In the last post I had gotten the shaft coupling separated from the transmission. Since then I had disconnected everything from the engine and had it pulled out yesterday. It was pretty exhilarating to get it out and begin the engine room project.

The following was done to prepare for the engine pull:

-Remove refrigerator compressor and its mount
-Disconnect all hoses - water feed, fuel feed, fuel return, exhaust
-Disconnect wiring harnesses, starter battery wire, grounding wires
-Remove alternator (want to replace it, and it gave some extra room to get to wiring and mounts)
-Disconnect coolant water expansion tank and hose
-Remove belt
-Remove air silencer/intake (needs to be replaced, flimsy and always falls off anyways)
-Separate shaft coupings
-Remove engine room side insulation (for a little more room to work with)
-Remove motor mount nuts. The rear motor mount nuts were so rusted and frozen, I needed to use a combo of drilling through them and a dremel cutoff wheel to get them off. They were easily the biggest pain of this whole process.
-Disconnect the transmission control wire
-Disconnect throttle control wire
-Disconnect tachometer wire

Picture time!

Engine and Engine room before anything was removed:




Removing the coolant water expansion tank hose:



Side panel insulation before removal. In poor shape



Front stbd mount. This one was easy


Front port mount. Needed to remove the fuel tank hoses to get to it. Post alternator removal as well.


Mostly disassembled




Engine room


Things that have come off


View from above after removing companionway stairs


Up comes the engine!


Will it fit!?



Piece of cake


Beautiful!




Engine room post removal. Cleaning this place up is one of the big reasons I wanted it out of there.


Notice the piece of motor mount lying there. The aft, port mount rusted in half!


The Abyss (aka, the bilge). Cant wait to clean that out


The shaft


Packing nut with loose flax packing. This is what allowed water to spray all over the engine room. Can't blame it for failing after seeing the poor condition of the mounts.



Engine all cosy on the ground, ready for work.





Cant wait to clean and paint the beast.




Now the work begins!

4 comments:

TaylorMad1 said...

i am enjoying your project keep the pictures coming very nice.

audeojude said...

Hey Erick,
Love it... great pictures. I have this post scheduled for the downeaster site on the home page on Feb 21..

I don't think there are any other pictures period on the site of the engine compartment and bilge area. If you would be willing to send some high resolution copys of these shots, and also if you have any more shots of the compartment and especially the bilge and shaft log areas of the compartment I would love to put those up on the site for everyone in hi resolution.

Right now I'm not planning on pulling Valkyrs' engine, just cleaning it up. It makes me cringe just thinking about all the work that project is.. Your da man!!!!
scott

Erick said...

Thanks Scott!

I'll send you the high-res pics as soon as I can. They are on a computer that has a broken power supply, so I need to fix that before I can get to them. I'll take some more detailed shots of the engine room now that it is clear of equipment and easy to understand the layout.

audeojude said...

That would be awesome. I finally got some free time to put some updates on the website... there is a new story going up now about once a week. Yours is the last one scheduled. Hopefully I will dig some new stuff up before then :) Actually I should sit down and write up some of my projects... or partial projects :) I have been really slack about documenting some of the stuff we have been doing.. We seem to just get it done in dribs and drabs and its hard to always remember to take pictures.
scott