Hi
Could I get some guidance from the knowledge bank....
I have older Lewmar 16, 2 speed sheet winches.
I broke them down last week to try and service them - its been a long time since anyone has shown them any love, and they more or less just screeched, rather than that nice tick tick of the pawls clicking by.
I faced a couple of problems:
I couldn't get the bottom 2 gears out. On-line I found a service guide and it shows:
a) a pin to be removed to get the ratchet gear out, but I seem to have a flat "tab" with no immediately apparent way to remove it; and
b) no indication how to get at the idler gear. Do I have to remove the whole base from the deck ??
I cleaned up the bottom gears as best I could, reassembled and greased and oiled as instructed. Once assembled the winches made the nice ticking sounds when the sheets moved around at moderate pace (a big improvement) but pulling lengths through at high speed and we are back to the screech.
Photos attached.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
KK
If it is worth doing, it is worth doing it well.
Those winches have been sorely neglected and deserve a big birthday.
If it was me I would remove the winches completely, soak them in kerosene, wire brush all the crap off the parts, emery polish the bearing surfaces and reassemble using good light weight grease, marine grease or dedicated winch grease.
I am not a fan of Lewmar winches so if after that they still "screech", replace them with Anderson all stainless two speed self tailers.
Cheers Cisco - thanks for reply.
I'm still hoping resurrect them, and will try and get the bases off. From the look of them, they haven't been removed since they were installed. i did have a new set of arco huttons on my Christmas list, but Santa failed to come through. Maybe this year ??
