2004 H33 Windlass Failure

[AndyK]

The windlass on my 2004 Hunter 33 has failed me for the last time. It is the Anchorman Sprint 900 (pn 0043621108) aka Sprint Atlantic 'A'. I have two issues:

1. I have removed the four nuts on the interior (V berth) and removed the deck hardware down to the circlip. I expected the lower gearbox and motor to drop out at that point. I have some movement but it will not come off. I am missing something. Any suggestions?

2. I heard that the Lewmar V1-3 series has the same mounting hole pattern. Anybody replace theirs with this series? What did you replace it with?

Andy

 

[Ken13559]

What's the problem? Motor failure?

 

[seadaddler]

Stuck

What may have happened is water gets down past the wiper seal and so the shaft is frozen to the bearing,this what I was told by a windlass repair but on my 07 H-36 over the years I would lift the top part and than lift it just so get grease down into the bearing and I did this every year so I had plenty of lub and had no siezing and when I did take the windlass out to replace the seal and bearing it was easy for me.
Maybe spray some WD-40 to loosen it up but the repair guy that most times after a few years with water getting in it it is a big problem with the shaft and bearing freezing to each other.
What is the windlass problem,Also my manual said that there is a clip on that bootm shaft but I did not have any such clip so check if you may have one.
Nick

 

[AndyK]

I have had three different failures over the past few years.

1. Shaft, gearox, motor alignment - My guess is this is due mostly to poor installation on Hunter's part. I was able to align them well enough to relieve the binding and get it working again. Occasionaly I have to go back and adjust things until it works again. Mostly a guessing game until I can get the gearbox and motor off and see the shaft angle.

2. Seal failure resulting in seawater penetrating down into the gearbox. The bearings have likely become coroded but I will not know for sure until I get the thing out and apart on my bench.

3. No response from the motor. Verified all electricals are working (proper voltage to windlass motor). I would expect that even with a mis-algned shaft or frozen bearings the motor would al least try but I get nothing. Likely the brushes have worn out completely. From reviews of other threads it seems the best solution is to replace the motor with one that has replacable brushes. $$$

 

[Ken13559]

Well on mine the permanent magnets of the motor broken to piece. Over time it wore the rotor some. Bought a new equivalent motor from SL Spar UK. Works great. www.slspares.co.uk
As for the clip, maybe its broken, that's why you couldn't find it.