I put in the new Vetus K75 engine mounts outns and did a preliminary alignment. Since the boat is on the hard I will have to redo this later, but this is at least in the ball park. The old alignmnet was very bad.
I found that now the engine sits quite a bit higher in the front and the water pump pulley is touching the stairs. Then looking at the stairs I saw some older indenting there from previous rubbing. Looks like this pulley had rubbed before, even with the old alignment.
Is this common? I was suprise to not find any previous post on this.
My first though is to trim the wood away a little bit. Is that a normal thing to do?
This may all get better once a redo the alignment in the water.
We have a curved notch in the engine side of our companionway stairs for just that reason.
Bill : Not surprised especially if you old alignment was way out.
Just cut a notch in the teak. I had to do the same thing when I installed the new M25XPB.
Thanks.
I'll go get the Dremel.