Engine clearance to stairs

[bclery]

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.

[Stu Jackson]

We have a curved notch in the engine side of our companionway stairs for just that reason.

[Ron Hill]

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.

[bclery]

Thanks.

I'll go get the Dremel.