steering

[steplift20]

when i dont use my boat for about a month the steering gets stuck and you have to disconect the motor arm and turn the metal rod with a screw driver to loosen it does any one else have that problem and if you know how to cure it from happening again
thanks

[macojoe]

your going to have to remove the sterring cable and clean the tube with some wd40 and a wire brush!!

If you don't do it now it will be solid in the spring!!!! And you will be even less a happy person!!

I know that on some or most V20 you have to remove the motor (at least in part) to get the cable out the tube *>:(

After you get it out its up to you to decide if it is time for a new cable while you have it out??

But clean all!! then get your self a Grease nut for the other end so you can grease it from time to time. They even have a oil set up for the cable to help with the rust.

Here is one item:
http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1***124;311***124;53239***124;296536***124;314204&id=56157

I cant find the other one right now, but all it is, is a steering nut with a grease fitting on it so you can add grease to the cable.
Almost like the one in the picture for the oil system.

eaither way try to store the boat all the time with the wheel turned so the cable is all the way in the tube, this will keep it dry from the weather.


I am lucky anough to have a full transom with a bracket and I remove mine every fall and clean the tube abd arm, bag it and reinstall in the spring.

[phatdaddy]

On mine,83, I take out the rod box and this lets the cable bend enough to get the rod out of the steering tube. Then i take a gun barrel cleaning brush, put it on a cordless drill and give it a good cleaning. a better solution is to use the boat more often. good luck.

[steplift20]

phatdaddy i here ya LOUD AND CLEAR
but with this weather we are having its tough to go out every weekend and the gas prices thats another topic.

[phatdaddy]

It has been a rough fall. My favorite time of year is sept, oct, but with what you mentioned and red tide, this has not been as much fun. After labor day, you can have the bay and island pretty much to yourself. It's sad to see dead fish floating everywhere and none are biting.

[steplift20]

hey phat where do you fish
i fish in nj sandy hook area
the last time i went out was early out and caught a dolphin mahimahi it a was great day

[willy]

Hey Steplift thats where I go maybe we can hook up some time, I leave out of the Highlands if you see an 85 v20 with a bracket and Johnson 115 with a ruggedly handsome fellow as captain that would be me boat name Old School. Pull along side well pop a cold one

[steplift20]

willy i just answered you on another topic you said you keep it down there so do i iv been down there for about 10 years i bet i know you
but IM the handsom guy down there do you know bruce with the 23 mako or ahab with the 25 chawk i bet where right next to each other down there

[phatdaddy]

Steplift, I'm in panama city florida

[reelapeelin]

I was wonderin' what red tide was bloomin' up in northern waters ???...we've gone down to vacation around St Georges Island and Cape San Blas and found red tide...not pretty...and it STOPS the flow of those juicy oysters outta Appalachiacola :-/...lotta $$$ lost...

Took my sister-in-law to airport in PC last July...neat town, course any town w/that many boats I'm gonna like... ;D...

[steplift20]

hey phatdaddy i think willy is in the same nmarina that im in

[phatdaddy]

We had red tide pretty bad this year. Started late and stayed with us even now. Don't know if the hurricanes kept it here or not. At least now its just dead fish, for the last month you could hardly breath when you were in the thick of it. Natures way of fertilizing the shoreline. RAP, I'm a true local, born here, and it was perfect up until about 4 years ago,now its gone development crazy. I do know at one time Bay County (Panama City) Fl had the highest per capita (sp?) of boats to household in Florida. I do my part , at one time i had 5, now down to 2.

[Seacrets]

Hey RAP, do you remember the cable length for your nfb system? I'm either going to install a NFB or bite the bullet and install hydraulic. Thanks in advance for your help.

[reelapeelin]

Seacrets, I don't remember the length, but usin' the standard measuring technique got the right one for me...measure from center of transom to gunwale; from center of helm to gunwale, then length down gunwale from helm to transom...if it measures a 1/2' order up (16 1/2' get a 17'er)... ;)...

Hydraulic steerin' one of these days, but my next toy's gonna be TABS!!... ;D...

[Seacrets]

Thanks