Alpha one drives, angled toward each other?

rcon

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Jun 16, 2011
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Adelaide
Boat Info
Preparation
'93 300 Sundancer
w/ Kohler genset
Raymarine E7D
Engines
4.3l Mercruisers w/Alpha 1
Was looking over my shoulder yesterday and noticed my wake seemed slightly off center (not the first time I'd had this thought), and I got my mate to take the wheel whilst I tried to square everything up.

Seems my drives are ever so slightly angled in toward each other. Seems to always end up with the wake on the starboard side (motor known to be in better condition than port). When starboard drive is straight, port is ever so slightly angled in

Questions.

1. is this normal
2. if its not normal, is it a problem

Engines/drives as per info tab.
 
normal, most twin engines have the drives adjusted that way.toed in or toed out measure in degrees not inches.One old school way was to disconnect the tie bar
and run wot, note position of steering lever of disconnected drive and adjust tie bar to match.
 
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Thank you. Kinda suspected something along those lines, but first time boater and it's nice to get confirmation (and google didn't help!)
 

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