if you have the non-greaseable gimbal bearing, you don't need that seal. All it does is keep the grease from entering the engine room. Regardless it'll be fine.
Is the nose of the pin rod hitting the winch frame? I'd think cutting it a tad shorter would make the thing not line up either. Just my morning thoughts without enough coffee.
Doubt the two are related myself. Usually when I change a belt for a customer, all of them get changed as the age of one is the same as the other. Other than a bearing going south, perhaps the belt was just old.
Had a few in the shop that developed a vibration. Just another one yesterday. Nothing to do with the drive. Turns out if you have the flat distributor cap, it’s most likely misfiring causing a vibration. Yeah any dizzy can do that from lack of service but them flat caps do it more often.
Can I use rustoleum on my transom assembly after I sand/prep/ prime it? Or will it fail fairly quickly? There is no corrosion on it, just the paint is wearing through due to age.
Remove it completely. Make a rounded tab out of teak and screw it down. It don’t have to be that tall, it’s to keep the door from moving out/in flopping around. Not really stop, but ,a retainer.
