Also important, the tool shipped when they said it would. I needed it by a specific date for a job and it was here. Ordered on Sunday and had an email Monday morning with a tracking number.
Great products and great service. Thank you!! Product is well-made and appears very durable, will work well for outdrive maintenance. Shipping was reasonably fast and arrived at my location without incident. Nice heavy tool. Once I corrected my mistake on the engine install the tool helped me dial it in quickly.
I did curse at the tool and call it some real nasty names until of course I realized it was my mistake. I have apologized and to make up for it I put a little "extra" grease on it.
For whats its worth, I looked at quite a few of these things, I wondered why the shipping was kinda high on this and another, when the item shipped I realized this high quality bar is solid.
Works for what i needed, best peice online. Will shop here again! Gift Certificate Login or Sign Up 0. You save. Flywheel run-out was almost nonexistent. I have loosened and re-tightened the rear mount pins. I have tried going a turn or so higher on one side vs.
I have wiggled and re-seated the gimbal bearing. Getting ready to loosen all the mounts, pick up on the engine with the hoist and 'shake' it a bit. How much adjustment in turns or fractions of turns should I expect from 'not aligned' to 'aligned'?
How sensitive is this adjustment? Is there another issue that I might be missing? I had the Merc. Any help would be greatly appreciated! We missed being on the water last summer due to a cracked engine block, and I really don't want to miss this summer as well.
Don S Honorary Moderator Emeritus. Joined Aug 31, Messages 62, Re: Help with MerCruiser engine alignment How much adjustment in turns or fractions of turns should I expect from 'not aligned' to 'aligned'? Click to expand Bt Doctur Supreme Mariner. Joined Aug 29, Messages 18, Re: Help with MerCruiser engine alignment Have never noticed the fibre washer tight unless the rear mounts were shot or it was incorrectly assembled.
These video's should help explain it. A little off Perfect Alignment. Joined May 19, Messages 26, Re: Help with MerCruiser engine alignment Getting the alignment close enough to start using the alignment tool is done visually Use a flashlight and look in through the gimbal bearing You'll see the splines of the coupler With the front of the engine on a chain block and the lower nuts on the mounts wound all the way down, lower the engine slowly until the coupler appears to be pretty close to alignment It's quite obvious when you're looking in.
Once it's close stop on the chain block and wind the bottom nuts up until they just touch the bottom of the engine mount.
This is where you start with the alignment tool Here's another video for you to watch Joined Jul 18, Messages 14, Re: Help with MerCruiser engine alignment Check to be sure that the engine mount arms are tight to the engine block. If they are a bit loose, you will get some sagging and the engine will be lower than it is supposed to be. If you are still running out of threads on the engine mount studs, then inspect the stringer areas where the engine mounts rest, if you have lag bolts holding the engine mounts.
If they look like they are sinking into the stringer a bit, then there are some other problems with the stringer that will derail your installation. If you have thru-bolted engine mounts "L" brackets" , make sure they are tight to the stringer. This will get you back into the adjustment range. The 'Australian' video is the better of the videos referenced here for your purposes, since it gives you some guidance on which direction to move the mounts, etc..
I recently installed and aligned my engine and had some question in my mind of which way to move the mounts, based on what I was seeing on the alignment tool. Once the engine is in alignment, the tool will go in dramatically easier, as Jay demonstrates in his videos.
When I installed my engine, I had to move the engine a 'smidge' to starboard, as I was getting heavier grease marks slightly on the side of the tool. Once we gave the engine a shove, the tool went right in. When I installed the outdrive, it too slid right in. Before you say, "Replace the drive coupling!
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