Re: Pearson 422 Owners Forum :: Raise engine to replace oil pan

[GDou...@aol.com]

Yes I did it to fix the engine mount bed.  1st move your wife off of the boat!!!!!  Then start removing the back mattress and the top part of the wooden birth.  You have to build it up with 4X4.  Remove engine room door and anything else, raycors, overflow bottle and anything else that will make it lighter and smaller and give you more room. Remove all 6 engine mount bolts.  Build a frame in the front of the engine room with 4X4's  Then we used a 10 foot I beam with 2 chain hoists.  Detach the engine from the V drive and transmission.  Lift it out.  we  rotated it 180 and after covering the cabin sole with cardboard we placed it between the birth and the engine room door.  Then we removed the v-drive and transmission and placed it on the back birth.  While it was out we replaced the engine room insulation and the dripless.  We epoxy painted the engine room floor.  Covering all wires and hoses with cheap table foil  I also painted the engine and the V-drive , transmission.  We did this while the boat was in the water.  I did most of the work but I did hire a mechanic and I assisted him for the actual removal, repair and reinforced the bed, installation, alignment and start up.

 

 

In a message dated 8/16/2016 11:08:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time, jeffs...@gmail.com writes:

Has anyone lifted their engine, not to remove, but to work on it in the engine room?  My new to me 422 looks like it should get a new oil pan.

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[matt grant]

Do you have any jpegs of the built up engine bed???   I am going thru the same process now.   Actually in the middle of building up the damaged mounting bed under the right mount under the sea water pump.    I have the old Perkins set up.   Its a 108.4.    I have been thinking about a semi permanent engine lift configuration to do periodic maintenance.    I expect to have this boat for a long time.
Thanks in advance for any input you might have.
Matt

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[GDou...@aol.com]

I do but I will have to find them.  Get a multi tool.  Then we took teak 1X4's and we cut them to follow the contour of the hull.  We put several together and then we glassed them in.  The we purchased 6 new motor mounts and installed them.  We have the original Westerbeak 58.  I will say I had an exceptional mechanic.  Later we installed a new propeller and the sweet spot was anywhere from idle to redline.  I could not believe haw ALLL vibration disapeared!!!

[CrDef]

I took my W58 out to rebuild it.  Therefore, I had to move it foreward into the salon rather than aft into the stateroom.  Removed the head before removal.  (Engine froze from water intrusion.  Head was removed while trying to repair in place).  I Disassembled the front of the engine box under the companionway in order to move engine into the salon.

There were four control lines used:

1)  Placed 2x4 across the engine room doorway with eyebolts placed to fit inside the doorway width.  Attached lines from eyebolts to engine mounts.

2)  Attached line from mast to engine. 

(Limes 1 and 2 controlled fore and aft movement).

3)  Used main halyard to lift.  Halyard ran down companionway to engine.  (Pad front underside corner of cockpit Inside salon).  

4)  before entry to salon,halyard passed through a block attached to outboard end of boom to control fore and aft  location of halyard.  (We also used halyard and to lift engine into cockpit and out to dock.  Block attached to end of boom meant that no weight was on the boom, only compression.  This line only controlled fore and aft position of halyard along length of boom).

Disconnect transmission from V drive.

Placed (2) 2x6s under front engine mounts as ramp for engine to slide up and forward into salon.  Be careful that aft engine mounts don't slide off engine bed while being moved.  We used a 2x4 as a lever to keep mounts on the bed rails is engine moved.

The combination of these four control lines enabled two of us to lift engine with the spare halyard.  Engine will start to swing forward but, lines from engine room doorway control forward movement.  Line to mast enables add'l pull forward once halyard becomes vertical.   Engine was then set on piece of plywood on salon floor.  (Transmission was then disconnected in salon before lifting engine out and off of boat).

I removed front of engine box and disconnected wiring, V Drive etc.  Then, two of us were able to move the engine in an afternoon.

Set up and clearing the way were more tedious and more difficult than the actual removal of the engine from engine room to salon.  (Spare halyard did suffer some stretch).

Good luck.  Go slow and maintain control.  

Jeff