I set my shoe flush, touching the lip on my wear ring (SBT w/Oe Stator), and had pump bolt bound full forward . After epoxy set had no problems compressing seal (Maniac Oe Type). I did eat my Wheaties that morning, but you want it tight. Better to have a fight putting it in than having it...
Yeah bro this is an imprecise science! Make that SOB fit. You don't want to see what I had to do to make scoop grate fit. I use 3:1 US Comp epoxy, West 404 Density Filler and Graphite. I put left over batches of this on shop floor and run it over everyday with a loaded forklift, and its still shiny.
I wound up grinding shoe, building up tunnel . You'll be the opposite. But I wouldn't grind carbon . Build shoe up or don't worry about it. You would have to grind whole tunnel to make it fit the shoe properly. Scuff tunnel, shim shoe parallel to pump.
This is how mine fit. Not a Rickter but same kinda deal. In my case the shoe was to big. It all has to align with bulkhead. Pump shimmed to bulkhead first.
Bubble wrap to hold shoe while I flipped the boat over.
This how shoe fit centered on pump.
I’d be more concerned with how the shoe centers on the pump, not the tunnel. I just finished installing a shoe this morning and I wound up installing a pump with shaft, aligning with a CF tool and then centering my shoe to that. It wound up in a far different position than being centered in tunnel.
With all State Forrests, Parks, and Trails closed 14 hr days on my current build are the new norm. No sneaking in one of those distracting mountain bike rides.
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