Sailing things right

9 October 2024

17:51 ยท original post in Telegram https://y-b.one/boat-life/591/

Today I started working on a sea water pump rebuild.
With some sweat and curses I managed to disassemble it, but the front-facing ball bearing was so bad that it did an "unexpected rapid disassembly" leaving the outer ring inside the pump.
On the cut view you may see that I got just a tiny groove in this ring as the only place to hook it.
Called a friend to brainstorm the problem and eventually found a solution that worked: three bolts, a nut in-between, and the metal hose clamp to evenly load each bolt in the outer direction.
Then hammered it out with the tubular wrench and a rubber hummer.

Just after I realized that that could be my first million-view video on YouTube, but will be zero since I didn't film a second. :)