Having trouble aligning the engine/coupler after an engine replacement. I have a 4.3L cobra on my 1990 SeaSwirl. Over the winter the block and heads froze and cracked which required a replacement. Rebuilt a 1991 S10 4.3L and swapped all the necessary marine parts on. Installed the engine on the boat and started the alignment process.
Bought the alignment tool from ebay and after countless hours of raising and lowering the engine am still unsuccessful. Started with the mounts at the absolute lowest point, then raised 1/4 turn at a time on each mount until raising mounts to the absolute highest point of travel. During all attempts the bar only goes in about an inch into the coupler. I've read through the sticky here on iboats and all the alignment posts I've found and must be missing something. The stringers are solid so in theory I should have only had to raise the mounts slightly if there had been some settlement going on over the years.
Does anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance.
--Jon
Bought the alignment tool from ebay and after countless hours of raising and lowering the engine am still unsuccessful. Started with the mounts at the absolute lowest point, then raised 1/4 turn at a time on each mount until raising mounts to the absolute highest point of travel. During all attempts the bar only goes in about an inch into the coupler. I've read through the sticky here on iboats and all the alignment posts I've found and must be missing something. The stringers are solid so in theory I should have only had to raise the mounts slightly if there had been some settlement going on over the years.
Does anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance.
--Jon
