Hi, Y'all,

I'm enjoying the arguments :{))

While I was aware, of course, of the intricacies of alignment, I'd not seen the westerbeke manual pages.

In fact, I did just as it suggested. Once I got it aligned, I pulled the bolts and rotated the tranny 1/4 turn and reinserted the bolts. Pulled mightily as I twisted my wrist, and repeated my feeler gauge bits at the entire circumference, rotated 90° per time. Can't get the gauge between any of the faces...

There are actually more than one Bruce (the other being someone I met in the Endeavour group many years ago, who splashed his 43 after 10 years ashore, recently) who've had no movement once back in the water for a time; I'm hopeful I'll have the same results, but am prepared to do battle with the system again as needed.

L8R, y'all - pix to come.

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