Question for GN7

[Mitch]

Gn7 Its amazing how much the bottom moves in the V drive area my V drive had a solid 1/8 inch of clearence from the plate to the floor ,after one season the groove in the bottom from hitting the plate was very noticable.The force on my V drive plate is 10 degrees up and forward on one side and down on the other, now tie the V drive to the floor dead center to stiffen that area up just for conversation ,,that energy would have to be displaced somewhere. Funny you mentioned V drives a friend was glassing a strut bushing in his shaft log the other day and my first thought was this . Your taking something that floated thru a hole allowing it to seek its own path seperate from the bottom now its attatched and every time the bottom moves it goes with it ?If nothing else it seems like it would play hard on the V drive output shaft bearing .