purpose of hydraulic steering pressurized sys

79robalo

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i have robalo with twin 150's. i bought used. it has a hynautic steering system with seperate reservoir. i noticed after fishing all day that the pressure in the reservoir had bled down to 0psi. steering still worked fine. i found a leak in the shrader valve on top of reservoir. here is my question. i thought this system would not work without pressure. if it does work then what is the purpose of pressurizing the system? other than that it has worked fine since i bought it.

thanks
 
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