Re: Morse or Teleflex steering problem
Whoooooaaaaaa, there Frankie.<br />Before you go and get your knickers in a twist and run back to your dealer and demand a 100.00 refund, I only needed the cable. <br />For the whole setup including steering box I was quoted 269.00 NZ which is about 250.00 AUD, isnt it?<br />The reason it was so dificult to install was on the boat where the engine sits isnt using a following arm return bar or whatever its called that normally goes into the outboard tilt tube. Now THAT would have been easy. <br />But my old Hartley has a clamｐon the transom which goes around the end of the teleflex hose and holds it in place. Then the end of the ram bolts directly onto the outboard.<br /> So I had to measure the total travel of the ram, divide it by two, then clamp the ram in that position while I went back to the steering wheel end and had to slightly modify the steering box because the new hose end fittings are different from the older ones （I would estimate this boat is probably about 40 years old and had the ORIGINAL morse system on it）<br />Then I had to line up the rotary cable core so it wrapped around the drum and didn't move so as not to change the engine end length, or there wouldn't be enough travel one way or the other.<br />Then came the issue of clamping the teleflex hose in the proper spot on the transom to ensure centering and equal travel of the outboard....are you starting to get the idea?
<br />Anyways, to make a long story even longer, all of this took multiples tries to get it right and the whole job ended up taking alot longer than I planned!!! <br />Also, I think if I had some sort of manual or instructions I could have done it a bit quicker as I had to sit and think about how to do it all.<br />regards,<br />dave.
