Comodave
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- Au Gres, MI
- Vessel Name
- Black Dog
- Vessel Make
- Formula 41PC
Well after many weeks of planning and sleepless nights, today we started working towards replacing our port fuel tank. We have 2 210 gallon steel fuel tanks that are 32 years old. No signs of them leaking yet but with steel tanks leaking is going to happen sooner or later. I want to replace them while I am still able to do the work rather than waiting until they actually do leak and I might not be able to do the work at that time. We made a hoist/crane in the salon which consists of a 6X6 I beam crossbar with a 6X6 timber upright on the port side and a 2X2 heavy duty welded upright on the starboard side. On the port side I have plenty of room for the timber upright but on the starboard side I only had 2” so I made the upright out of steel. We had a 1/2” steel bar made to span the 2 lifting eyes on the engine. Bought a 2 ton trolley and chain fall. Yesterday we started undoing the connections to the engine and got most of them undone. Today 3 of us finished unhooking the engine and then hooked up the chain fall and lifted the engine and rolled it over to the temporary stringers that we assembled on top of the temporary decking. It took us 2 hours today to get the engine out and onto the temporary stringers. Before we started we made a timber frame that goes from the deck down to the stringers to hold the weight of the engine and transmission. I will add some photos of what we have done so far. Hopefully they will load correctly and not sideways or upside down.
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