For those of you that frequent iboats youve probably already read this. Since buying thist boat in 08, it has always had a belt sqeual. Dealt with it for a bit then decided to look into it. Quickly discovered that the power steering pump wasnt inline with the rest of the pullies. Started adding washers and for a season, adding 4 washers above the top mounting bolt fixed it. Fast forward to this spring and when I first started the boat it was back! While we prob wont sell the boat Im to the point with this that I want to get rid of it.
Does anyone have any known solutions? If you search on this all sorts of threads pop up but there is never a solution. It does appear the rear mount pushes the ps pump out at the bottom port. I would need to have another bracket made to verify. Ive used a straight edge and washers behind every mount in different configs. If I bump the top of the pulley out to somewhat square it up then the squeal moves to the water pump pulley.
