We were asked to do the maintenance on all winches on this Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 389. They are Harken self tailing 35.2 ST.
The process is simple
Dismantling a winch, degreasing, inspecting, lubricating and reassembling it is not difficult if you prepare, and are methodical.
Harken
While the guys at Harken would insist that this is a simple and clean procedure, we know for a fact that it can be quite intimidating to many owners, and that you do put your hands in the grease.
As a matter of fact, while some prefer to do this themselves, most are intimidated by the potential mistakes and small part losses. In this last case, they would usually try to help us and to learn in the process, putting us under great pressure.
Of course myself or every associate working on this topic has been trained, primarily using all the material provided by the vendor: And we carry a tablet with direct access to all the useful material provided online:
- Harken winch servicing page
- Radial Winch 35.2 ST manual (EN)
- How to Service a Harken Winch || Tech Team Express (YouTube video)
- Harken service kit store
For those if us who don’t like reading manuals, let us help you with a useful extract of Harken’s procedure here.
1. Removing the drum of the winch
2. Core disassembly procedure
3. Removing the gearings
We would clean all the metal parts in petrol, wipe out the grease of all the plastic parts. In this case every part was in perfect condition, so we could re-assemble the winch straight ahead without using the spare kit the owners had for their Harken winches.
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