Well, my partners and I have decided to bite the bullet and pull and rebuild the engine on our Pearson 30 which we bought this spring. After a season of several carb rebuilds, sailing into the slip with a dead engine, and wondering if the engine would be working or not that day, we just pulled the engine this weekend. We read a lot of threads on rebuilding and have Don's manual and some shop space. We are relative beginners at engine rebuilding but hopefully with the help and advice of the forum members we can make it successfully through the process. And it looks like fun.
We read many ideas for how to get the engine out and we went loaded for bear with a levering bar, comealong and other misc gear and we were more than a little nervous. We had a great plan in mind and we immediately threw it out the window after we started. We stumbled on what we think was a novel solution attaching a come-along to the main halyard, and using the main sheet at the end of the boom which gave us front and back positioning ability- I drew a diagram attached showing our scheme.
Probably someone has already done this but we were proud of our efforts because it was so much easier and controlled than we thought it would be.
Anyway, y'all will be hearing back from me when we reach our first roadblock.
Cheers
Jim Lyon
We read many ideas for how to get the engine out and we went loaded for bear with a levering bar, comealong and other misc gear and we were more than a little nervous. We had a great plan in mind and we immediately threw it out the window after we started. We stumbled on what we think was a novel solution attaching a come-along to the main halyard, and using the main sheet at the end of the boom which gave us front and back positioning ability- I drew a diagram attached showing our scheme.
Probably someone has already done this but we were proud of our efforts because it was so much easier and controlled than we thought it would be.
Anyway, y'all will be hearing back from me when we reach our first roadblock.
Cheers
Jim Lyon
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