Dockside Engine Removal - does it exist here?

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footloose

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Hi guys n gals - been a while.

Does anyone know of a way to pull a gas V8 out of a boat at my dock? Is there a boat with a boom available somewhere that does house calls?

Let me know if you have ever heard of such a thing.

Thanks and good boating to all!
 
If a tow truck could back up to the seawall they could use their boom.
 
if a truck can get to your seawall a boom crane could do it easily.
 
Use an A frame to get it up then "cherry pick" it out with a tow truck or crane.
 
if anything can get close to the seawall, crane, big foklift, they can do it if they can reach.

saw the Harley tied by your house the other day, glad you're getting to it!
 
thnks guys - the problem is that the motor having issues needs to be pulled because the azzclown who build it used fasteners that rusted in and broke....now I need access to the motor to fix the broken bolts. The dead motor is of course the one driving the power steering and there is no such thing as a counter-rotating PS unit....so I have it "rigged" for now but as soon as I pull the motor I lose PS. Otherwise I would drive her to the marina, pull the motor with a forklift, and go back home on one motor.

There is no dockside boat that pulls engines.....too bad.
 
I had a Cummins 6B pulled out for a rebuild while in the slip. They built an "A" frame, hoisted it up, moved it to the cockpit (cockpit deck temporarily reinforced), set it down, rebuilt the A-Frame from the cockpit to the dock and rolled it over to a cart to haul it away.
 
How about where the sailboaters have their mast stepped.
 
I have pulled my neighbors engine and helped him reinstall it using my davit on the seawall. Used an A frame to pull it out of the engine room. Strapped it to a furniture dolly (one of those four wheel carts that you get at HD) rolled it to the back of the cockpit and lifted it out with the seawall davit. Picked it up with the engine hoist and backed the pickup under it and lowered it in the bed. I have used the seawall davit to pull my generator in and out of the boat a few times. Any of your neighbors have boat davits? You could then lower it into a smaller dinghy and take it somewhere they could lift it out of the boat. A lot of trouble but you save a lot of bucks.
 
Or invite your local football team and have those boys pick it up and carry it out of there, you might have to buy them some burgers and beers.

Cor
 
"you might have to buy them some burgers and beers."

OOOff! That could be really expensive!
 
If it can come straight up, I have seen some marinas lift with their dry stack forklift and chain.
 
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I have a engine hoist if it would be of any help.
Need a tow? Need a trailer to haul engine? Let me know.
 
Thanks guys for the ideas - I'll have to plan the attack soon.....I'd like to pull them both and clean them up and update. Perhaps the tow it home approach makes the most sense.
 
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