K1W1, It is obvious from your many posts that you are an industry knowlegdeable but pulling the designer from this limited input makes me wonder...
Missing shims are a possibility but I don't think so since the re-assembled shaft was apparently too high, necessitating raising of the engine....
Thanks K1W1, In my life ashore I've installed a number of smaller engines and am familiar with the mechanics of alignment, using feeler gauges,...
Assuming the shaft and prop turn freely with no obstructions, what, other than alignment issues could cause the output shaft flange on a Twin Disc...
Roger. Thanks Pascal.
Delay after delay in the boatyard and its nearly July. I'm currently in Puerto Rico with an estimate of about two weeks before we can expect to be...
just to close the door on this one for the hundreds of people who have been following, Hauled out again and dropped the rudder. We put a 50 ton...
this thread should be archived in the jokes. I needed some levity and it just arrived. Well done sailors
I was of the mind that four nylocks was as good as any outboard motor lock I had seen. They can be a real bear to loosen but obviously these guys...
I often have had the same thoughts. It took me two trips back to the boat plus one trip to Sears before I got the motor off for servicing. I had...
I had the motor off last week for a $500 tune-up. It was a good handful for two men to lift off while on the hard. The nylock nuts took a large...
This morning I was greeted with the sight of our 14' tender hanging peacefully in its davits devoid of its' Honda BF-30 Fourstroke. We are...
Took out the pin, dropped the tiller and found the rod-end eye was frozen and would not articulate. What a relief to finally find something...
Tomorrow morning the pin gets cut off of the tillerhead. When the cylinder was removed for rebuilding it was threaded off of the terminal eye. The...
this boat has two stations, both vetus pumps. The top one is outside with a vented cap. The lower one is inside with a solid cap. There is a...
Both helm pumps work function and move the rudder in the appropriate direction with the same "skip". Had the outside helm out and overhauled....
what is left? So, without re-listing everything I've already checked, let me add that once the dual station non-return valve was returned and...
I'm not onboard but from memory... the nrv seems to have two bottom ports running to inside steering station, two top ports running to the...
nrv Thank you Garyohv for your comments. they inspired me to keep searching. buried in the darkness behing the pilothouse icemakers I found a...
thank you "Gary?" for your reply. I'm going to take some more time to review the drawings but wanted to thank you for your interest and help right...
