Freestyle Q8 alignment way off.

[Twake]

I'm helping a guy put together a q8 and the alignment is just so far off.
The previous owner had it straight and he has a build thread. (Picture attached) he was using the same motor mounts and the same 61x blaster motor. His looks great. For me the motor is sitting way high.. (Picture attached).

I have the mid shaft bearing pushed all the way up and the motor mounts pushed out all the way and this is still how far off it is.
I could grind some off the bed plates, but not that much.

 

[Roseand]

Is your midshaft flat against the bulkhead or is the driveshaft angled up?

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[Twake]

Is your midshaft flat against the bulkhead or is the driveshaft angled up?

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Of course it's a kawi pump/shaft. Yeah the shaft bearing is flat. Should i should that up a little and just seal it good?

 

[Roseand]

Oops, never mind. Was looking at it wrong.

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[Roseand]

I thought your pump side was on the left and if it was that usually isn't a bad fix.. Had that on my rip and it was due to adjusting my nozzle a bit so the rear tabs didn't touch the hull before it was dead center(was fine with stock stator, mag threw the nozzle off a little) . I'm not familiar with kawi pumps whatsoever. If it's similar to Yamaha I don't think you can just shim it up because it'll put the whole coupler at an odd angle..

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[RivMan]

If you loosen the midshaft bearing, there's quite a bit of adjustment there. Did you remove that as part of the build? You can also shim the pump to adjust the position of the coupler.

-Rob

 

[Twake]

If you loosen the midshaft bearing, there's quite a bit of adjustment there. Did you remove that as part of the build? You can also shim the pump to adjust the position of the coupler.

-Rob

Yeah its loose right now.. I think I can play with the pump/shaft/motor angle a bit, if not i'll start grinding the bed plate