Reply To: Urgent Help – Ideas Please

[Stephen Oliver]

Hi Rob

Thanks. Not the hardest thing I have done on this.. but if I hadn’t have already done the port raw water pump (which was the worst), it would have been a nightmare…

I didn’t release the couplings. I measured and diagrammed each mount before removal. I have reset everything back as it was for now and the shaft turns easily which is an indication it’s not far off.

I now need to check weight distribution on the mounts which if the sbmar mounts are the same as the Barry ones should just be a case of measuring the snubbers gap between snubber and pedestal. Once distribution is ok, I’ll start Proper alignment. I was going to get a mechanic to do it, but I find it hard to trust any of them, based on the work I have seen so I figure I best learn it myself. I just need the time and the window of boat trip downtime to actually start on it!

Steve