Renken1600
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2019
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- 46
Hi everyone,
very new to the boat world and wanted to check something with you. Both my throttle cables and steering are very stiff. I can attribute some to the massive outboard but my logic says the cables should be as straight as possible in its path with the least amount of kinks or curves. Maybe I’m wrong.
this is a renken 1600 with a 115 mercury. I’ve enclosed photos of the really long throttle cables and the curve I find suspect in the stern of the boat.
Red is throttle cable. Should throttle lines be cut-to-measure?
Top black line is teleflex line... it would seem more sense to me having the steering cables exiting from the lower hole as it would be a straight shot instead of that s curve? The 2nd photo shows that it actually bends sideways and then down... it just doesn't seem right to have that blunt of a kink... What do you think?
Why are there two holes anyway?
Thanks in advance
very new to the boat world and wanted to check something with you. Both my throttle cables and steering are very stiff. I can attribute some to the massive outboard but my logic says the cables should be as straight as possible in its path with the least amount of kinks or curves. Maybe I’m wrong.
this is a renken 1600 with a 115 mercury. I’ve enclosed photos of the really long throttle cables and the curve I find suspect in the stern of the boat.
Red is throttle cable. Should throttle lines be cut-to-measure?
Top black line is teleflex line... it would seem more sense to me having the steering cables exiting from the lower hole as it would be a straight shot instead of that s curve? The 2nd photo shows that it actually bends sideways and then down... it just doesn't seem right to have that blunt of a kink... What do you think?
Why are there two holes anyway?
Thanks in advance