Can anyone help
I have only ever played with outboards before and I am making what I first thought was a simple job into a marathon.
I have a 1972 winner wildcat with a 3.0 litre inboard, the engine needed a rebuild and the parts were quoted as 600 plus. So I picked up an 1984 mercruised 3.0 with 840 hours on it, I had to change the bellhousing from the origonal and tried to fit it.
Looking through the gimble housing from the back of the boat with the engine in place the engine is about half an inch too low and maybe a quarter to the offside, I have packed it with steel washers (4) and it is about right height wise but still too far to starboard, how can this be as the casting sets the side to side up or have I missed something. Also the workshop manual says the lining up of the drive shaft is very important and mentions a fibre washer inbetween the engine and transum plates, with a spring washer inside it??? how important is this, any help would be apreaciated.
Thanks
Darren
I have only ever played with outboards before and I am making what I first thought was a simple job into a marathon.
I have a 1972 winner wildcat with a 3.0 litre inboard, the engine needed a rebuild and the parts were quoted as 600 plus. So I picked up an 1984 mercruised 3.0 with 840 hours on it, I had to change the bellhousing from the origonal and tried to fit it.
Looking through the gimble housing from the back of the boat with the engine in place the engine is about half an inch too low and maybe a quarter to the offside, I have packed it with steel washers (4) and it is about right height wise but still too far to starboard, how can this be as the casting sets the side to side up or have I missed something. Also the workshop manual says the lining up of the drive shaft is very important and mentions a fibre washer inbetween the engine and transum plates, with a spring washer inside it??? how important is this, any help would be apreaciated.
Thanks
Darren