Viking Engine mounts adjustment

Curious how you know you need to do an alignment or suspect a problem? I'm guessing you have some vibration and suspect an alignment issue? Before you go unbolting the mounts or jacking things around have you unbolted the coupling and checked the gap to see how far out you are aren't? Once you determine how much you need to move and in which direction you can make a better plan. Be careful where you put your jack if you do need to move things. I prefer a hydraulic porta-power and pancake head to using a bottle jack but not everyone has these.

It will be interesting to see how far out your shafts are from center of the logs once you replace cutlass bearings. Obviously this has to be done first, get your shafts back to center and then align to that point. What type of seals do you have? Since you are pulling shafts to replace the cutlass bearings make sure you do a run out on the shafts to check for straightness. I would also suggest doing an NDT on both shaft ends to make sure they have no cracks or indications. And do a blue fit on your wheels to make sure the contact area to the shaft taper is within tolerance.

I'm lost.
How do you know you need an alignment when it reads as needing new motor mounts? Yes, mounts wear (rubber fails) and motors change position because of this.
How are you going to service your alignment when it reads as you have never been here.
You have all of your fingers? If you want to keep them, Have a real shop do this.
I'm hoping your surveyor offered an average price to fix.

Yep, You have never been here.

Trying to save a few dollars by working on your own boat is great. That is how most of us have learned ourselves. Lots and lots can and is accomplished by the owner. As many here, I have scars to prove it. Including shortened finger tips.

Your going to need a yard to pull the cutlass bearings, Let them put it all together. You can use your saved fingers to take pictures of your new ship and big smiles with all your digits.

I have shims also. From 2 3/8" to 3 1/2" is all shim up. A lot of spacers to roll a block over into alignment.
Think this is the style of mounts on Vikings also. Solid mounts may not have been factory for the TIB.

Well,, Good luck.

Is that the bearing from the shaft log or the strut? Definitely needs replacing. What size shafts do you have? Are you checking the shafts while they are out?

What do the bearings in the shaft log look like? Unless you only have one per side?