Aligning S22 V Drive & Shaft

[jwilcox]

Hello,

I posted some photos when my shaft packing was leaking and someone had mentioned that my shaft was out of alignment. I looked at the PDF floating around about it but it seemed not super informative.

The PDF says to loosen 4 engine bolts. I count 6?

It is asking for .003 gap where the coupler mounts up up. If I loosen the bolts... I can make it (the coupler) as tight or as loose as I want so I am confused as to what I am really trying to get into spec.

There is little to no room to get a large wrench on the engine mount bolts. Specialty wrenches needed to loosen engine mount bolts to get the shaft aligned properly?

Any other insight here would be awesome.

Thank you.

[cyclone]

Tighten up the shaft and let er rip. THere's no way to align within 3 thou in a practical sense. REplace your shaft packing and make sure your bilge pump works. You'll be fine.