Re: Cable and Pulley steering
All the ones I have seen and used have a spring/anchor back in the transom splashwell. TD has posted some pretty good photos of these in the past. I think they are still available at nominal cost.
This is 100% correct...both ends of the cable need to be using 'preloaded' springs, to keep the cable taut at all times! Otherwise, when taken to full travel (either direction), the cable could unwind, and tangle, on the steering drum.
I used to have the job of rigging these cable steering setups on the boats we sold...as a teenager, sometime around the mid (cough) sixties! :redface:
