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I recently removed the cover of the center board pulley to have a look. It appeared that the cover had never been removed. After removing the bolts the cover was stuck stuck stuck, we had to use a knife and screwdriver to pry up the cover. There was a sticky black gasket material that covered the whole opening.
After removing the gasket we were able to inspect the pulley. It was an Easton bronze pulley and this thing was frozen and did not turn. I tried to pound it with a punch and was able to get it to move but it was obvious that I needed to remove it to free it up. The problem was that the cable is captured in the pulley so you would have to remove the cable to get it out of the boat. The other interesting thing is that the cable will not move (jump) off the pulley because it cant get past the bracket, so it can not jump off when slack. We could not drop the board enough to remove the cable so we wound out the winch all the way to remove and inspect the cable. The cable looked good but the allen screw holding the cable to the winch was deformed from the wraps of cable. So I got a 8X8 block a punch and a hammer, set it up on the floor of the boat and pounded the pin out of the pulley. Success I was able to take everything apart and clean grease reassemble. I had to clean up the end of the pin on the grinder where I pounded it into a mushroom. No the pulley turns freely. To reassemble the cover I cuts 1/8” red rubber like gasket material punched the screw holes out with a leather punch. Put a heave coat of 3m 4200 on all surfaces and all new SS bolts. When Snowfish splashed we were 100% dry.
