Sailing Vessel Triteia - The Iron Genny - Part I - Episode 6 - Hoisting Sailboat Engine

Hello friends, the day is here. Finally, you get to see me bring my new Yanmar 2 GM20F to the boat, get her on the boat, and set down into her new bed. I, shortly after buying the boat, I came across this Yanmar 2 GM20F that had been rebuilt on Craigslist. The asking price was $3,500, and I'd considered rebuilding my engine, but knowing the amount of other things I had to do to get this vessel running and sailing again, I decided to go ahead and buy a rebuilt engine. Luckily, one popped up on Craigslist, and I went and checked it out. Driving to Whittier, California right now from Los Angeles. I'm going to get the rebuilt diesel engine for my boat. It's a Yanmar 2 GM20F, so it should plug right in where mine is. I'm going to go check it out, and I might buy it today. We'll see. Fingers crossed. I ended up buying her and bringing her home, and finally came the day to bring her to the boat and get her put in place. Here it is. It's a bit of slow TV. When I initially was looking into pulling my old engine and getting my new engine installed, I was really nervous about using the boom to haul out the old engine and dropping the new one. I'd read a number of people just use their block to tackle and use the boom. You can swing it around, and it just freaked me out so much. The idea of possibly damaging the boom, lifting an engine out or putting one in, just really, really, I was not comfortable with it. Then the more I researched and thought about it, the engine's only 250 pounds. I was like, well, would I be about someone that weighed 250 pounds holding my boom and lifting their feet in the air? The answer was, of course, I wouldn't be. Also, if the boom's that weak, do you really want that boom on your boat? Finally, I was like, okay. I just started trying to find videos of people that had done this. I found a couple of videos that gave me confidence, but they weren't really as detailed as I would have liked, I guess. That's why I left a lot of this footage intact of me taking the engine down and taking her up and swinging her onto the boat. That way, hopefully, if anybody is looking at doing this to their vessel, they'll be able to see how I went about it and have confidence that it's a perfectly safe way of going about it. It does look a little sketchy and high stress at times, but I'm really happy with the way it came out. Everything went really smoothly. It's a little difficult when you're short-handed, but hey, that's what we do. Here's the video. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for watching. If you like it, give it a thumbs up for me. Without further ado, so just sprayed the bilge. Came out pretty good. Pretty easy. Got my spacesuit on. I'll show you what it looks like now. Nice and pretty. Very, very white. I'm going to switch those pipes out anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Looks gorgeous now. One lot quicker than trying to roll it. I'm pretty excited about that. Got that big job done. Now, just get ready to put the engine in. I replaced my pony. Pony, tell them what happened. I replaced the bilge pump and the whole hose system and the float and everything the other day. I don't remember what day. It was a long day. It took a lot, but got 90% of it done. I still need to put on an additional float switch, which will trigger an alarm, but for now, I got the float switch in, the small bilge pump, and all the new hoses. When I replaced everything in the system, like the gusher, whatever, the valves, and all the hose, the only thing I didn't replace was that T valve. I was like, oh, it's perfectly fine. Problem is, it's too small. As soon as I hooked it up, poured some water in the bilge, turned it on, this thing starts spraying like a sprinkler in a front yard. I was so bummed. I just torqued it down pretty hard, did the job. I'm about to unscrew it and bypass it so that at least it flows out of the boat until I get the new T valve, and then I can re-hook it up. This additional part goes to my well gusher, which I'm going to rebuild. I don't even need it hooked up right now. I'm just going to bypass that right now, and then we should be So this part of the video definitely needs some commentary. The day it came time to take my engine to the boat, there was no one I knew available to help me offload it. So I borrowed a hydraulic pedal lift from work, took it down there, and of course, as things happen, I couldn't get the So now I was down there. This was the day it had to happen. I went through a series of terrible ideas about how to get the engine out of my truck by myself. I felt that I could lift the weight safely. What I didn't feel I could do safely was lift the weight, turn, and set it down. That's how you destroy your back. The other thing that was an option was lifting it, walking backwards with a dolly between my legs, and setting it down, which is also a recipe for disaster. So luckily, after several dry runs, I gave up because I didn't want to hurt the engine. So finally, I was like, man, I gotta figure something else out. So when I go and turn off the video, it was so I could take my camera with me to the boat. I had a long board at the boat. I thought maybe I could put that as a sled and use a ratchet strap as a brake to slide it this board. But once I got it there and got it set up, that was even too sketchy. It was like the board wasn't long enough and it wouldn't stay on the back of the truck. I was really uneasy about it. As I'm sitting there trying to figure it out, it was going to happen one way or another. This giant of a man walks up and says, you need some help? I was like, oh man, I would love that. I'd be so grateful. So he asked me to weigh the engine. We picked it up. It took us one second to set it down on the wheels. I thanked him and he grunted and walked off. That's the nice thing about marinas and just being around is, you know, people are willing to help you out when you need a hand. But really grateful that he came by and I didn't do something absolutely stupid, which is what would have happened. Motor's in. Went great. Not a problem. Pretty stoked. Me and Pony got it in. There she sits. Now I just gotta get everything hooked up and we're ready to go. In the next episode, you'll see me battle the engine to get it in the right spot. Diving below to check the prop's position, coming back up, pulling the engine several times before finally realizing the packing nut was leaking like a sieve. A little tricky in this position. If you'd like to see extra clips that didn't make it into the episodes, I've begun posting Patreon-only clips on my Patreon page. Thanks for watching and thanks for the support, and until next time. 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