Can't thank you enough for taking the time to make this video. It helped me tremendously!! VERY well done! Wish I could buy you a cup of coffee. Thank you for sharing what you know. God Bless.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Great video. Thank you. I am having difficulty removing (unscrewing counterclockwise) the line lifter on my B 23. I am afraid to hit it too hard with the mallet. I sprayed some penetrating oil and will try it again tomorrow. Hope I am not doing anything to damage the winch. I gave a couple of pretty good wacks with no luck. Thanks again.

@johnhughes1595

2 жыл бұрын

My video shows pretty light taps, but that's because I had loosened it the day before. During THAT day, you'd definitely have seen me banging lots harder. I might even have gotten a small hardwood block to put on the "line lifter" and then hit the block with a more substantial metal hammer. I'd also suggest that if you give it a few taps in the "tighten" direction, it might give you a start in the "loosen" direction as well. You can watch the magic-marker line you drew to see whether you're getting any movement at all. About 1 mm in the "tighten" direction is all that I'm recommending here --- not a quarter-turn or anything! Once it starts to loosen even a little bit, it'll be easy, I expect. Best of luck!

@michaelcyr8215

2 жыл бұрын

There are two different constructions of B23s depending on age I believe. Mine do not require unscrewing the stripper arm (line lifter). After unscrewing the locking ring at the top, the outer winch drum just lifts off the base and as the stripper arm clears the internal gear it just falls off.

@johnhughes1595

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcyr8215 Thanks, Michael --- I had no idea, because I've only got this one B23 to work with.

So helpful. Finally starting to service mine. Thank you! BTW found matching shoulder screws at McMaster.

@johnhughes1595

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent -- I didn't even know what to CALL those screws to look for replacements!

Beautiful job making this video. Thanks

So professional and informative! Thank you sir

@risacredharp4144

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great job !

Anybody has any idea which part is worn out if the winch drum wobbles side to side?

Thank you so much for the very informative video! I was wondering what you think of the idea of lubricating everything with just oil instead of greas, but doing it more often, and without taking every single gear apart. Basically taking the main outer part of and lubricating all the inside gears in the shaft in place with oil using a brush or something while turning the gears to make sure it gets everywhere? How long you think the oil would last?

@johnhughes1595

2 жыл бұрын

Grease and oil have very different functions in lubrication in general. One characteristic of grease is that it mostly stays put, while oil moves around. If you lubricate your gears with oil, one warm day will ensure that almost all the oil goes away, and you're left with metal-on-metal contact pretty soon. The video takes 37 minutes because I'm explaining everything and trying to get it all framed nicely. In practice, breakdown, oil-and-greasing, and reassembly my my lewmar primaries takes about 15 minutes each, and I do it each year. For this Barient, with the annoying ring-thingy on the bottom of the shaft, it'd be a good deal longer, because you'd have to unmount the whole winch, so...

@johnhughes1595

2 жыл бұрын

By the way, for an example of oil vs grease: my transmission is "splash lubricated" --- part of the output shaft sits in a puddle of automatic transmission fluid, and when it spins, it splashes the stuff all over the inside of the small xmission box, from which it drips onto all the other parts. If the fluid were grease, it'd partly stick the shaft, and partly get thrown to the sides of the box where it'd stick, while the shaft would rapidly hollow out a pit in the grease and pick up no more. The rest of the box would never get lubricated. -- not good.

It's really unfortunate that the winch needs to be unmounted from the boat in order to service it.