Hi!
Bought myself a
Lofrans service kit with intent to do proper
service of my X2 vertical
windlass.
Good job, as during extraction of the shaft/motor/gearbox from below the top bearing disintegrated! Ordered the bearing too!
I’ve got the
gearbox extracted from below, separated from both the
motor and the
deck components.... shaft is stuck in the
gearbox - can’t decide yet if it was expected for the shaft to be stuck here.
Great diagrams from
Lofrans, but some guidance/ordering of take apart would be highly useful. Can’t find much directly useful on forums/youtube.
Anyone got any tips/guidance?
I’ve got 2 bearing
seals out. One on the back of the main shaft isn’t so useful because it’s got to go out the other end I think. One on the
motor shaft exposes a circlip which looks useful to remove to get that shaft out. Not sure if that is a prerequisite to the maknshaft coming out.
Removing the 4 screws round the gearbox housing hasn’t let it just fall apart as I had hoped.
So thinking some moderate ‘encouragement’ is needed.