This week has been such an accomplishment and weight off our shoulders. The impossible back the possible. Monday the starboard engine went into the engine room defying the odds that were potentially against us, like the hydraulic reservoir that was in the way taking up room. Once the engine was inside the engine room the ship was warped back to it normal docking area. I felt like this move went a lot smoother than the prior move to put the engines onboard. The tide was hugely working in our favor helping generously. On Tuesday the engine was shifted forward and placed on the isolators and mounting blocks. Oil was then added to the port engine for the alignment guys to start their process of aligning the engine to a one hundredth of a millimeter. After that was completed, the engine started to be redressed and like with the port engine, Ron and I tackled dressing the right side of engine.
By Thursday Kyle and I were back to our side quests and this time we were back at trying to remove the RoxBox wedge. After it not moving after endless attempts and realizing the wedge wasn’t releasing tension, worse came to worse and it had to get drilled out. Some of the rubber cubes that hold the wire, and the wedge were destroyed in the process, but it was successfully taken apart to add new camera wire, POS-MV cable, and the engine cables. Now we were able to run some pull lines from that space into both engine room so we wouldn’t have to spend much time running within the tween deck.
To wrap up the week I helped with putting the old engines on the pallet and putting all the part we removed back onto the engine to sell them. At the end of the day, I joined another side quest and helped Jon with the AC project and drawing a wiring diagram, matching the AC in my stateroom, that would help us with the install.
