Thursday, January 3, 2013

Volvo engine pull out of a Gillnetter

I am interning at LaConner Maritime Service out of LaConner Washington. The post covers a task completed in the last week of December.  Here are some pictures of before, during, and after the engine pull. The job included disconnecting of exhaust, propeller shaft, hydraulic and wash down pumps, fuel lines, wiring, and coolant lines. I also removed the exhaust shroud and muffler. We had to use the torch to get a couple of the motor mount bots off. The project was very straight forward and not my first pull but if I had to say what I learned, don't be afraid to get trigger happy with the sawzall. No hours were documented since the start of the quarter.









Picture one is the project before I started. Picture two is my setup for the first pull attempt which moved the engine about half way out before clearance became an issue. I blocked the engine in place and cut the deck out more as depicted in picture three. Picture five shows some of the corrosion I was dealing with.

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