Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Sunday, 12 June 2011

inside 'stacey'!

Well we've managed to remove the clutch, take off the flywheel and stator plate and wait for it........split the engine casing!  Wow, not bad for a non-mechanically minded father and son team! What's more I think everything is looking pretty good inside! "Whey hey" as they say here in the UK.

Steve

The clutch plate



side view


the clutch basket

the base of the clutch plates

the powerful spring inside


The stator plate



Inside the engine casing

the crank shaft

the crankshaft side view

the gears I guess

top views of gears and I think it is the cruciform in there as well

close up of bearings on crankshaft

there was a huge amount of oil in the bottom of the casing - should there be?

bearings in other engine side casing




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