tom21
havin fun
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- clearwater FL
ok - I will let you guys in on a huge secret!!!! the holes for the mount are larger than the bolt to install it to the hole. slide the mount outwards and you will get the mount lower. duh!!! if it doesn't move out far enough to get you aligned then drill the hole bigger. dremel it out whatever.
a mount is a way to attach a motor to the hull and isolate vibration. vibration causes damage. don't believe me then make an aluminum mount so you never have to worry about breaking one again and then you can keep trying to re epoxy the hull inserts instead.
the reason the pto has a rubber dampner is twofold. to keep the motor vibration from beating the crap out of the driveline and to allow a small amount of vertical/horizontal movement allowed by the motor mounts. this is why when mounts gets loose it damages the pto couplers and mainly why a properly aligned driveline gets wear/loose.
as stated many times before- start with pump alignment to the hole in the bilge. then the pto. then the motor. if you don't you are causing damage. the couplers need to align not only in height but also in angle. you can be set at the right height but have the nose too high or low and this will be jsut as bad as to high or low o the rear height.
[EVIL]If you have driveline damage- it is because 1) you had a broken mount(s) 2) the alignment was off 3) you seized a bearing or sucked a rock- sudden stop of any of the moving drivline. period[/EVIL]
a mount is a way to attach a motor to the hull and isolate vibration. vibration causes damage. don't believe me then make an aluminum mount so you never have to worry about breaking one again and then you can keep trying to re epoxy the hull inserts instead.
the reason the pto has a rubber dampner is twofold. to keep the motor vibration from beating the crap out of the driveline and to allow a small amount of vertical/horizontal movement allowed by the motor mounts. this is why when mounts gets loose it damages the pto couplers and mainly why a properly aligned driveline gets wear/loose.
as stated many times before- start with pump alignment to the hole in the bilge. then the pto. then the motor. if you don't you are causing damage. the couplers need to align not only in height but also in angle. you can be set at the right height but have the nose too high or low and this will be jsut as bad as to high or low o the rear height.
[EVIL]If you have driveline damage- it is because 1) you had a broken mount(s) 2) the alignment was off 3) you seized a bearing or sucked a rock- sudden stop of any of the moving drivline. period[/EVIL]
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