hi all i've been lurking around the archives for a couple of months now...finally found a question to ask. anyway i am a new owner of a h23 one of the winches is froze so i get the set screw out to take the drum off but it will not move i lookes at the insides of the other winch and cannot figure out what would hold it on so tight this boat has been sitting for about ten years.....sad but she is shaping up fine nt many real problems just the general stuff, of coarse that is all covered so well in the archives bravo to everyone ive spent hours in there hahaha anyway thanks everyone tom
maxwell winch frozen
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Dried up grease.and perhaps rust.
Use penetrating oil. Tap the winch with a hammer a few times and continue to pull. All you need is to break the hold and it will come up easily. If the tapping doesn't do it then you would need to get a puller. Autmobile Discount Stores carry pullers of various sizes. Get one with 3 or 4 hooks to distribute the load. You may try applying heat but if the tapping with the hammer does not do it I would doubt the heat would. Good luck.
Use penetrating oil. Tap the winch with a hammer a few times and continue to pull. All you need is to break the hold and it will come up easily. If the tapping doesn't do it then you would need to get a puller. Autmobile Discount Stores carry pullers of various sizes. Get one with 3 or 4 hooks to distribute the load. You may try applying heat but if the tapping with the hammer does not do it I would doubt the heat would. Good luck.
sounds good
thanks i didnt think of that. i did spray pb blaster in it last night i'll check it out this morning the puller sounds like a good idea thanks again benny tom h23 caballo del mar ...formerly mooring glory
thanks i didnt think of that. i did spray pb blaster in it last night i'll check it out this morning the puller sounds like a good idea thanks again benny tom h23 caballo del mar ...formerly mooring glory
If all else fails, that is
trying all the ideas listed by Benny and you still can't get the drum off, here is a possible solution. I had a frozen drum on an old Barient on a C&C I owned years ago. The PO never serviced the winches. A pawl spring disintegrated and pieces of it got stuck between the inner surface of the drum and the spindle. Wouldn't budge no matter what I tried. In desperation, I took a piece of plywood that I could hold right up next to the base of the winch to protect the gelcoat. I then inserted the end of a pry-bar and began to apply brute force. I worked my way all around the base of the winch trying to move it up just a bit. The drum finally came off. I know you are talking about a Maxwell here, but as an interesting aside, I replaced the pawl spring with a Lewmar spring as Barient parts were not available. Worked nicely. I cleaned up and lubed the winches and they worked fine afterward. While brute force is seldom the right solution, it worked in this case....
trying all the ideas listed by Benny and you still can't get the drum off, here is a possible solution. I had a frozen drum on an old Barient on a C&C I owned years ago. The PO never serviced the winches. A pawl spring disintegrated and pieces of it got stuck between the inner surface of the drum and the spindle. Wouldn't budge no matter what I tried. In desperation, I took a piece of plywood that I could hold right up next to the base of the winch to protect the gelcoat. I then inserted the end of a pry-bar and began to apply brute force. I worked my way all around the base of the winch trying to move it up just a bit. The drum finally came off. I know you are talking about a Maxwell here, but as an interesting aside, I replaced the pawl spring with a Lewmar spring as Barient parts were not available. Worked nicely. I cleaned up and lubed the winches and they worked fine afterward. While brute force is seldom the right solution, it worked in this case....
it came off
well you are right warren brute force is not a good thing hahaha. my brother and i worked on it for two hours we finally removed the winch all together luckly the nuts came off without having to hold the screw heads. we turnd it over in a vice and tapped at the weep hole, nothing... i found a bolt that fit in the screw hole and tapped at it, it worked everything in side was fine. what we found was a cement of? grease, salt and ????? the stuff is like rock im still scraping it out of there i dont think these winches have ever been serviced either. we were thinking that a spring stuck in there was the answer or that the bearing blew up and was in pieces. anyhow its going to go back together fine once i remove the cement. i love it when a plan comes together.thanks tom h23 caballo del mar
well you are right warren brute force is not a good thing hahaha. my brother and i worked on it for two hours we finally removed the winch all together luckly the nuts came off without having to hold the screw heads. we turnd it over in a vice and tapped at the weep hole, nothing... i found a bolt that fit in the screw hole and tapped at it, it worked everything in side was fine. what we found was a cement of? grease, salt and ????? the stuff is like rock im still scraping it out of there i dont think these winches have ever been serviced either. we were thinking that a spring stuck in there was the answer or that the bearing blew up and was in pieces. anyhow its going to go back together fine once i remove the cement. i love it when a plan comes together.thanks tom h23 caballo del mar
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