Hoisting the engine

[sastanley]

You're gettin' there Bill..Taking off work to work on the boat sure is unfortunate isn't it? (I took off most of Friday and went sailing with my buddy, who as it turns out was hiding me from my house for a surprise birthday party..)

The feeling as you motor away from the travel lift slip in a couple of weeks will be one of the best feelings possible.

[ILikeRust]

Just the other day, my wife was asking whether I was finally done ordering parts and stuff.

Unfortunately the answer is "no."

Still need to order a good sea strainer for the raw water intake.

And still one "big ticket" order to go - all new canvas. Sail cover, dodger and bimini. I've got an estimate from a good canvas maker - about $2,500.

Pretty much have to do it, though. The sail cover and dodger both are totally shot and probably are close to 20 years old. And she doesn't have a bimini. Some previous owner, a couple owners ago, fabricated what I like to call the "Jed Clampett" sun shade. Four stainless poles with two cross-members and a big sheet of Sunbrella across. It's very effective at shading the cockpit, but a pain in the arse to set up and very ungainly-looking. And it's pretty worn out also.

[sastanley]

It is funny you say that about parts...we took the family out sailing this weekend and had a great time and the engine ran flawlessly. Now that the family event is over, I am getting ready to rip it all apart again to start the FWC install..I am making up my Moyer list for Ken right now!

Neil turned me onto a (relatively) cheap raw water strainer that is simple and plastic and easy to mount & clean.

It is available on ebay from the "boaterbits" store...$30-ish

edit - use this in the ebay search engine. "BOAT RAW WATER INTAKE STRAINER FILTER "

[ILikeRust]

HA!

Talk about timing. Hehehe...

I just pushed the button on an order including a Groco bronze sea strainer and associated fittings.

I just decided that was the one I wanted. It's more expensive, but hey, waddya gonna do? What the boat wants, the boat gets. It's a quality item.

I need to take a good look at what I actually am going to need as far as hose and fittings. As I recall, the Moyer FWC kit requires 5/8" hose. And I recently bought a bunch of 1/2".

Then I have to figure out where the sea strainer and heat exhcanger are going to go - not a whole lot of places to hang things in my little engine area. Oh yeah, and some wiring stuff, too - I need to figure out where to locate a bus bar or two. I'm thinking a bus bar is the best way to wire up all the things that need to connect to the engine and batteries, rather than the stack of wires the previous owner had attached to the battery terminals and a couple ground points on the engine.

[ILikeRust]

On the tailgate:

[ILikeRust]

I said to the guy, "I dunno - you think that crane is big enough to lift this engine?"

He replied, without missing a beat, "I could go get the big one."

Apparently, this is their "small" crane.



The view from the inside the cabin:



The mysterious levitating engine!

[ILikeRust]

On the left, you can see my shiny new through-hull. On the right, the support for the new battery box I'm not quite done building yet.

Also, all that white stuff: the @"#$*&@^! bilge paint that nearly killed me. That was a lot of work.

[ILikeRust]

The best part is that, even with the PTO shaft and pulley for the FWC kit, there is still enough room behind where the bulkhead will go that I don't have to relocate it. I was not sure whether I would have to move the bulkhead forward a couple inches, but I can attach the new bulkhead I'm making right to the same cleats the old one came off.

After this, I sanded and varnished (actually, Cetol'd) one grab rail on the cabin roof. By 10:00 a.m., it was too stinkin' hot and humid to do anymore, and I was working in the direct sun, so I packed it in and went home.

I started this whole adventure at 5:30 a.m., when I left my house to get to the boatyard by 7:00 a.m.

[TomG]

Looks fantastic Bill! Thanks for all the pictures!

[ILikeRust]

Looking back at that last pic, of course I now see some places I should have painted with the Bilgekote.

Maybe I will go back and do them, once the weather cools down from "pizza oven/sauna" to "pasta steamer".

[Mo]

Looks real good!

Nice job there Bill. It looks really good. The compartment is done well also and it will reflect light well. I like it. Let us know when you fire her up.

[ILikeRust]

One thing I forgot to report, that I just remembered. When the two crane guys first showed up, they came by in a pickup truck to check out what the job would require. I had the engine sitting out on the tailgate of my pickup and I was up in the boat getting ready. I could hear them talking as they pulled up in the truck and were taking a look at the engine and figuring out where to hoist it from.

I heard one guy say to the other, "See, that's what they're supposed to look like."

I hope he was talking about the engine itself overall. Anyhow, it was nice to hear.

[roadnsky]

Oh yeah, and some wiring stuff, too - I need to figure out where to locate a bus bar or two. I'm thinking a bus bar is the best way to wire up all the things that need to connect to the engine and batteries, rather than the stack of wires the previous owner had attached to the battery terminals and a couple ground points on the engine.

Bill-
Do the bus bar for both battery stuff and the coil.
It really cleans things up.
What I really like, is that it gets all of those ground wires OFF of every friggin' screw on the engine!
Here's a shot of my Battery Bus. I have the same for the coil.

[jpian0923]

Bill, good work. looks nice! Did you adjust forward and reverse before you dropped it in?

Jerry, Dumb question: Is that for the positive battery connection or negative? Can you use the same type for both? Looks very neat.

[ILikeRust]

Bill, good work. looks nice! Did you adjust forward and reverse before you dropped it in?

Yes. I think it should be good, but of course I'll find out for sure when I finally get the boat in the water and give it a go. If you watch my video posted earlier in this thread, I demonstrate the forward and reverse with the engine running on the stand, so it makes me think it's probably pretty well adjusted.

Jerry, Dumb question: Is that for the positive battery connection or negative? Can you use the same type for both? Looks very neat.

If you look a little more closely at the pic, you'll see that there are two separate bars in that block, and the top one has a "+ symbol on it. The way I've seen them, one side is for the + and the other side is for the - terminal.