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Old 10-24-2017, 06:47 PM
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The above is my thought too.

pillow blocks have long bolt holes that tend to suck fairly thick washers in, allow for the position to shift when tightening the bolts (the top surface is raw casting --pebbly) and generally require a stop/adjuster bolt set-up to keep them from moving over time. Once i started using vertical axle hangar bearing setups all the pillow block adjustment issues i had vanished.

If you can, avoid short chain runs--they get hot faster and higher temps the shorter they are.

if you haven't, you may want to dig through the last 3-4 pages in my build to see the changes i made going from the 250 to the 400--which is when i went with the stub shaft off the engine and switched from pillow blocks to hangers.
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