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I'm probably just being anal...Floating in the water, my engine has about a 10-12* lean(backwards). Maybe that's normal, I dunno.Nose down ???
Can't say I've ever seen that, why ?
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Thanks...it looks to be 24ish(plate to plate). I just want to tilt it down about as much as it's tilted up now.. fwiw.
I can figure it for you if you can give me the length between the plates but remember that you will have to lower the back of the engine also since the pivot point becomes the rear motor plate and to lower the front of the engine will raise the driveline since it behind the pivot point. So you can figure it by making the u-joint the pivot point and measuring to the front plate. Once a figure is calculated on the front plate you can take the ratio of the rear plate position compared to the total length and take that percent of the the amount you cut off of the front plate and then take that off the rear. I know you probably know that but I AM A MATH GUY so lay some lenghts on me and I can do the trigOne of my winter projects is to try to level my motor out a little more. At a glance(to me), it looks like I'm about 5* nose up. I'd like to nose down 7 or 8*. Anyone have a educated guess of how much I should take off the front plate? I was thinking about 1/2"..
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I'm thinking 7* down from up 5*...
I'm thinking you should leave it alone. Your u-joints are not gonna be happy with that 12 degrees.
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Even at 7* (why not just make it parallel to stringers?) you will need to get the height just right to keep the u-joint angles even.
Thanks Tom...As it sits there in the pic(my pic), I have about a 1/2" until my dl bottoms out on the shaft. I know it(the motor) needs to come back some. I think a new set of rails are in my future.... Fwiw isn't that dl a little longer than mine??? I'm in no way pointing a finger at you, I've moved all my junk around. It works fine, I probably should leave it alone but I don't know howKreg if you drop the front it will "withdraw" even more D/L than you currently have which is very "marginal" Here again (below) is the original mock up for reference , suggest you Start fresh , loosen every thing and work off the "D/L alignment" as your starting point to garner what you want to end up with Always here to help if you need it Tom
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All 1310's (spicer "come aparts" and H bars) are within a "C hair" of each other ,honestly I'd probably leave it alone (with the exception of the depth engagement) TomThanks Tom...As it sits there in the pic(my pic), I have about a 1/2" until my dl bottoms out on the shaft. I know it(the motor) needs to come back some. I think a new set of rails are in my future.... Fwiw isn't that dl a little longer than mine??? I'm in no way pointing a finger at you, I've moved all my junk around. It works fine, I probably should leave it alone but I don't know how
I would describe it as going from 5* up to 2* down....a total change of 7*'s. I don't know if we are on the same page or not??So you aren't talking about going from 5* up to 7* down? Thats what it sounded like. Still think you are wasting time and energy. I won't say you are nutz....but...........
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