Stupid alignment question
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Topic: Stupid alignment question
Posted By: rfarkash
Subject: Stupid alignment question
Date Posted: July-08-2012 at 3:02pm
The coupling flanges have a male/female step that engages fairly tightly. Do you press the faces all the way together and assume any misalignment will still be evident through feeler Gage's? I assume that this is the only way to get an accurate reading since if you don't engage the steps, gap would be too large to measure and would change every time you rotated shaft.
Sorry for the basic question, but maybe it will help someone else as well.
Thx
Ron
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Ron 1989 Ski Nautique
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Posted By: SNobsessed
Date Posted: July-08-2012 at 7:43pm
Yes, you want to press the 2 flanges fully together without flexing the metal (i.e don't tighten the screws). You should not be able to insert a .003 inch feeler gage between them, anywhere around the entire perimeter. Repeat this at all 90* clockings (checks for bow in shaft).
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Posted By: rfarkash
Date Posted: July-10-2012 at 1:52am
Got it. Will do later in the week to double check my work from earlier in the year.
Thanks
Ron
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Ron 1989 Ski Nautique
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