Neptune1
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Well ,had my first wheel change yesterday.Got a call for what I thought was to remove a crab trap from a wheel and found that one of the flukes was completely broke off.So the captain asked me to remove it and replace with his new wheel.After explaining to him that Ive never pulled a wheel and also didn't have a puller yet he insisted that I try anyway.So after about 30min of finesse and a few blows from a small sledge I managed to remove it.Next was the hard part installing the new wheel.Being that I was in 9ft of water I managed to put a crab pot underneath me and wrestled the 28inch wheel onto the shaft.Once I managed the wheel back on everything else went back together easily....after struggling the way I did can any of you more experienced divers give me any pointers on how you float a wheel and also what would have made this job easier...Thanks Bobby m