Recent content by Austin236

Got the boat out today with the new IMCO Ram bushings and a realignment of the steering cable guide tube. Definitely a lot better then it was but still not perfect. I see a full hydraulic upgrade in my future. Also had time to remove the name as requested by the PO, new name to come.

Wired a new plug on and installed new safety cables. Once I get a new brake fluid reservoir cap I’ll sand an do a final coat of paint on the tongue.

Started some work on the trailer this weekend. It’s not perfect but it’s going to get me by for the summer until I can have the trailer redone next winter. The flat 5 connector had about 4 different splices from the plug to the swing away tongue bulk head and looked pretty bad although it...

Thanks! Already enjoying it a ton.

Thank you! I hope so. Hoping to find out this weekend.

Thank you! Going to give the new ram bushings and the wrench slot orientation a try this weekend and hope that’s my issue! I really appreciate the feedback from all of you.

It’s not a tilt helm, just a standard Morse helm. There is about 1/8th of a turn of wheel slop before the cable engages the actuator which I assume is well within tolerance for a cable to assist setup? So not much play from the helm to the actuator. And there’s no side to side play between the...

I believe I’ve found something, I removed the imco rams from the drive as I’m going to be replacing the bushings anyways and checked the gimbal and steering for play. All seems well, but while checking out where the steering cable mounts to the powersteering Brazil actuator , the flats on the...

Will do! Thanks!

This seems extremely accurate, it’s a dual ram assist setup, cable to the helm. But this makes perfect sense as there seems to be so much slop to the wheel, by the time it starts turning, I can’t turn the wheel fast enough back and it ends up over correcting back the other way. The steering...

I definitely don’t plan on taking the boat out again till the issues found and resolved! Definitely going to replace the ram bushings just for good measure... just seems unlikely that it’s causing this dramatic of a problem! I will look into the cable. Thank you

So I should remove the imco rams from the drive and retest to see if here’s any slop?

There is zero play in the drive when trying to move it by hand on the trailer, just a little bit of movement in the imco rams where there’s a little bit of slop in the bushings on either end, but nothing severe enough that would cause this issue IMO...

I will take a look at the cable!

That’s what I’m thinking... hope I can get it figured out. Thanks!