Bravo 1 drive alignment
08-04-2004, 07:52 PM
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Bravo 1 drive alignment
I have a Baja Force 320 with twin 502 and bravo 1 drives. When I align the drives, one motor is about all the way to the bottom of the adjustment, and the other is almost to the top of adjustment. Very noticable. Is this normal?
08-05-2004, 09:19 AM
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Re: Bravo 1 drive alignment
rattus,
when aligning the engines, make sure you rotate the crank 180* . I fought alignment one time and found my coupler was warped inside the donut. I would check it, align it and then next time it was way off. Swing the motor from side to side and top to bottom, till figured out what was really going on. I ended up putting a used coupler on and made solid motor mounts, then put the warped one back in and ran it forever.. go figure.
I would look at the motors with a level to see if one is off from the other. They should both be about in the same plane if the drives are mount on the transom the same.
Hope this helps
Dick
when aligning the engines, make sure you rotate the crank 180* . I fought alignment one time and found my coupler was warped inside the donut. I would check it, align it and then next time it was way off. Swing the motor from side to side and top to bottom, till figured out what was really going on. I ended up putting a used coupler on and made solid motor mounts, then put the warped one back in and ran it forever.. go figure.
I would look at the motors with a level to see if one is off from the other. They should both be about in the same plane if the drives are mount on the transom the same.
Hope this helps
Dick
