That time again!

[goldenbrown]

Thought i would give chloe louise a few coats of anti foul and a good polish,new anodes,when removing the shaft anode i noticed that the cutlass bearing was knackered the cutlass bearing only costs £50 but the yard told me that the rudder has to be dropped which means that the tank will have to come out. me being me has been thinking about trying to adapt a hub puller to push the bearing out,has anyone else had this problem and done the same thing!here are some pics of the progress so far,need to have her back in the water by next week as there is fishin to be done.





the cutlass bearing.

[Pete B]

Tidy, nice job.

[abuc4]

poxy job but looks good when done NICE

[backdraft]

she looks real slippery now .nice job mate.

baz.

[monkeynuts]

hi golden brown
the are 2 ways i get cutless bearings out ,
1:- is to remove the shaft and grub screws. then use a hacksaw with a corse blade and saw away evenley till you get close to /touch the bracket with the blade ,then do another cut if needed at a right angle to the first cut. then the bearing will just colapse and you should be able to pull it out with your fingers

2:- is a pain for a 1 off job but do i 100's of them a year so it can make the job very quick sometimes, but remove the grub screews holding in place, then block off under the p-bracket so when you knock the bearing out its a dead blow. then cut a piece of skaffold pipe or other sutible piping in half lenth ways and weld a bolt to the out side of it and use it to knock it out with out removing the shaft.hit it hard as you dear but dont hit the shaft or your hand as it f***in hurts....lol. i would only hit it 10 times and if the is no movement give up, but if it starts to move just remove the prop. when this does not work i go to method n.o 1

we dont tend to use the pullers we have had over the years as they tend to make things worse and take even longer and then in the end we had to cut them out anyway.
its a shame the tank has to come out just to get the rudder out as the rudder should be a doddle to drop out.
take care and good luck