"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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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.

Skip



So, reading the followups, I see I wasn't adequately complete in my
descriptions...

This is a 4" coupling and transmission flange.

1) I left the bolts loose.

2) I rotated the entire assembly 90° at a time, pulling the coupler to the
tranny flange as tightly as possible after each rotation, inserting (failing
at the end) the feeler gauge around the entire face (which, since the tranny
plate is a butterfly, amounted to really only about 215° or so out of
360°).

3) I unbolted and rotated the transmission flange 90° and rebolted (see
#1).

4) Shake the engine vigorously

Rinse, repeat #s 1-4, until the tranny has been in all 4 positions.

Wash and dry hands.

Go home.

L8R, y'all...

Skip
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