Saildrive Diaphragm Replacement | ⛵ Sailing Britaly ⛵ [Boat Work]

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In this “Boat Work” video I replace the 26-year-old saildrive diaphragm seal on our boat. I disconnect the saildrive from the engine, move the engine forward, then remove the saildrive assembly from the boat. I then split the saildrive leg from the transmission and replace the diaphragm seal along with some associated gaskets and o-rings.

While I’m at it I replace the prop shaft seals and lower bearing housing o-rings on our Volvo Penta saildrive. I then reinstall all of the above ready for our launch, which went successfully: https://youtu.be/HTXOkjmZuhw

We saved $$$$ by doing this job ourselves & I share the mistakes I made during this job with you so that you can avoid making any of them! 🙂

Whilst doing this job (on my own) Rossella, Emma (6 months old at the time) and I were living on board, up on top of a cradle, in a gravel car park, hundreds of miles away from our family. At the same time as filming this video, we were filming all the other jobs we were doing on the boat during our DIY refit (including filming separate sections of video about this job) AND editing AND uploading DAILY videos to our YouTube Channel. We were sleep-deprived, and although we must have been crazy to take on all of the above, we are very proud that we were able to achieve everything that we did in that period.

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*Please Note* In this description I (Chris) am using the singular, but, for the record, I could not have done any of this work if it wasn’t for Rossella doing a wonderful job with all of the things she was doing during this crazy period. We do everything as a team and Rossella’s hard behind-the-scenes work is absolutely essential in allowing me to make videos like this, so here’s a big thank you to Rossella!

Useful links, including free PDF downloads on how to do this job can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23183271 (This is a free post publicly accessible to anyone)

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Chris, Rossella and Emma

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1:09:50 Lonely Troutman, William Rosati (YouTube Audio Library)
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