How to Clean and Rebuild a WINCH [Capable Cruising Guides]

[@johnrathbun3641]

Emily the winch mechanic! You go girl!!!

[@stephengreen2898]

Awesome video… I am watching for my 3rd time over several months…. You both show step by step how to do things…. You are my HOME SCHOOL TEACHERS!

[@colinmiddleton2941]

I love your maintenance videos.

[@ddhughes13]

Wonderful lesson Emily. You and Clark are very amazing teachers. Cheers! Dani

[@walkwithdezi]

Emily, Good job 👏 you figured it out.

[@lauravalerius4667]

Great job, Emily!

[@bjswope8797]

Great vid. Very useful. Love how you just intuitively worked thru it!

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Yes I was really proud of her when I got back - C

[@guyfox68]

Great job Emily. I see you had everyone's favorite Count Dracula to help you along with the count. Some times the simple task are the ones that get neglected and those are the ones that can cause the most trouble.

[@bobuncle8704]

Excellent job Emily. I’m glad you tested it before final assembly. I was telling you to switch the prawls, but I guess you didn’t hear me🤔. You knew the problem immediately and rectified it. Isn’t it a nice sense of accomplishment when your learn something new, and complete the job. Well done I don’t know how many people are confident enough to let you come along on a learning experience like that, and then you really made it look like you were an old pro👍👍

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Thanks, Uncle Bob ;) Next time, scream a little louder through the time machine, lol. I'm glad people appreciate watching me learn. The only way to gain more knowledge is to admit that you are missing some. If you've seen my dinghy building series (look for "Emily Builds a Boat" on KZbin) I share a lot of failures and successes there, too. -E

[@georgelewis8904]

Thanks for the video,able to see how it's done first before I get started on simuler job.

[@sailingzigzags6511]

Great job, thanks for the tutorial!

[@Clarks-Adventure]

You're very welcome

[@lukedenbleyker5091]

Good job Emily

[@ArcticBlues1]

"This is really easy. A kid of maybe even a crew member could do it"... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!! You Rock!

[@Snookbite24]

I feel much better about the prospect of servicing the frozen winches on the Hunter if we buy it. Awesome job Emily! Great video!

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Hope you get it Brian

[@07bently]

Nicely done.

[@timvukman4734]

Good Job Emily. Good troubleshooting along the way to make sure it went back together correctly!!!!

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Thanks Tim! -E

[@FlyJFY]

Great job. I’m about ready to do the same thing three electric winches and one manual. I’ll share my video when done

[@ctndiaye1]

Great video and thanks for the close-ups. I'm going to try my Barient 23s. I hope it's just as easy.

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Good luck! I imagine it will be similar. Check out the link in the description for the manual and diagram for that one. I wish I had checked that site before I started. It would have been a bit easier. But regardless, it was definitely not too complicated. Thanks for watching and subscribing! -E

[@timharris3203]

Great job Emily, it only gets easier with the next one, preventive maintenance is the key to everything. Might as well to DDTo all the wrenches while your in calm waters and have ther time..

[@huffster6344]

Just as a good practice, when you are unsure of disassembly or reassembly, try to leave one part installed as your reference instead of taking everything apart at one time. Good job!

[@Clarks-Adventure]

She had the fallback of me knowing how to reassemble it when I got home but good idea to have a reassembly plan. I suggest that people take a picture of the parts before disassembly. I guess she also had the video files so she was good. -C

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Looking back, all I would have to remember for next time is that the pawls look like little 9's. That would have been an easy clue when they looked like backwards 9s! -E

[@mattrogers9049]

It was fantastic to discover how to do that with you. Thank you!! What kind of grease did you use?

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Any waterproof grease.

[@SailingPivo]

Thanks for sharing! Now no excuses for us not to clean all our wenches. Cheers

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Lol I think you mean winches. ;) -E

[@SailingPivo]

@@Clarks-Adventure Yah, I guess those need cleaning too! ;-P

[@rmcnabb]

On our next episode, Emily rebuilds our transmission!

[@stevenshankle3868]

Great job Emily! I know you do not show all the steps; did you pack the roller bearings with grease? Are there bearings in the secondary gears in the winch base? Much kindness to you both, and best wishes in you travels!

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Yes I did. And yes there are gears in the base but I couldn't get to them. Thanks Steven

[@LuisAnibalSolorzano]

Thank you for sharing Emily. Super useful. Getting ready to continue on my voyage, just discover one of those is not working well and don’t have the grease to service it. Will I find grease in Luperon?

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Sure, but if not I'll give you a finger full. Bring your bearings over.

[@Clarks-Adventure]

But the hardware store or more likely the auto parts store will certainly have some. You should have some onboard.

[@LuisAnibalSolorzano]

@@Clarks-Adventure I would love to visit Temptress, but my dinghy is up on deck now as I am planning to cast off in the next day or so -I got the grease but could use your advice because after the reassembling it did not work and can’t figure out why …

[@Clarks-Adventure]

We aren't living on Temptress just now. We are on a boat called Bright Eyes while we finish our refit.

[@MiQBohlin]

Magnificent Emily 👌🏽

[@Pauly__D]

Do those blue rings actually work ?

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Yes on vertically mounted winches they work quite well

[@LarsonFamilyFarm-LLC]

5:18, that's a needle bearing, you'll know cause it looks like lots of rolling needles. Please use diesel or kerosene for solvent....i cringe at the flash point of gasoline, especially around metal tools (spark) other chemicals. White lithium grease for those gears would have worked nicely too. Good job while Clark was gone.

[@howardmann7461]

Gasoline is a good solvent but it is absorbed into the skin quite easily. Just like acetone it is hazardous to your health. Please use plastic or rubber gloves next time. I want to see you live to a ripe old age, you're to precious!

[@stephengreen2898]

I hope you SAVE your skin & wear gloves… Gasoline is not GOOD for humans to absorb thru skin… You & Clark are sooo important to all of us…. LIVE ON! We need you guys!

[@40watt_club]

So cool .... and you did really good . So what's about Clark singing and dancing ? Since it seems Emily does all the work ?

[@Clarks-Adventure]

He was off fixing refrigeration for a fellow sailor. Don't worry, he washed some dishes the day I fixed the winch. It all evens out. ;) -E

[@40watt_club]

@@Clarks-Adventure ok ... washing dishes ... sounds like me .;-). so, stay safe , the both of you . It is a pleasure and an honour that you share your way of life :-)

[@PaulBartomioli]

Next time, use Nitrile gloves to keep your hands from smelling like grease and gas. Gasoline IS NOT a good choice for solvent. Hopefully, you have an absorbent cloth underneath the work area and all the parts. Brake cleaner works well, and would allow you to remove the bulk of the grease on the 2-speed gears. The brake cleaner would go a long way to cleaning the interior parts, then you replace the grease with a spray-on grease. Nice job!! How many winches left to service?

[@williambunting803]

......, and, Clark, Emily demonstrated the most important property of “boy stuff” with “its kinda fun to play with”.

[@AidanWeatherill]

You opine that you cannot use too much grease... but if it is oozing out everywhere it will pick up dust and gunk and can act as a grinding paste in your gears!

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Thanks, Yes but after watching the video I think she did a good job considering she has never seen the inside of a winch before? What do you think? -Clark

[@AidanWeatherill]

@@Clarks-Adventure Looked perfect! Probably want to strip it right down at some point... but the way it ran after servicing was night and day.

[@lizardkeeper100]

next time you are in the US you might want to stop by a sporting goods store and pick up the solvent resistant toothbrushes they use for gun cleaning. I haven't found a brush in a hardware store that works as well unfortunately but if anyone knows of one let me know because the sporting goods store I get them from is an hour farther drive then my hardware store is.

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Great idea. How about eBay?

[@lizardkeeper100]

@@Clarks-Adventure I bet ebay and amazon would carry them though I have never checked

[@Clarks-Adventure]

Also there are nylon and wire brushes at harbor freight for cheap if there is one close.

[@lizardkeeper100]

Thank you I didn't know that!

[@bryonensminger7462]

That is a bearing and those little round parts are needle bearings

[@davidking1501]

Emily, when using solvents, grease and diesel it maybe a good idea to wear protective gloves. If you look at any of the professional marine mechanics they wear than. Safety first

[@westmc45]

never use gasoline to clean parts mix shade tree mechanics do this. Mix WD 40 with Diesel use that its not flammable like gasoline might want to rename this what not to do to clean a winch and it wont eat your toothbrush and leave melted residue everywhere. Other that you seem to know how to clean

[@Clarks-Adventure]

The main reason for using gasoline here was that we had a bunch of old gas in the generator that needed to be used or disposed of. Plus, it evaporates, so cleanup is easy. Waste not, want not! -E

[@kwdement]

pawl.... not prawl.. grungy not gungy.

[@michaelmarcon1881]

Please don’t expose your bare hands to organic solvents.