Seastar hydraulic steering ram

[Blue_Runner]

By easy, do you mean the end caps come off easy?

I looked at it again and see no pitting and appears as new. I checked the other side this morning and it is leaking too. Looking at the seal kits. Do you use the kit that comes with the new end caps? Or just get the kit with the seals? One comes with the pin wrench too, but it is over $100. Seems crazy for a replacing a couple pieces of rubber.....then again after all it is a boat we are talking about here.

Here's what my my winter time is looking like:

Seastar cylinder replace seals, refill, bleed. ~$150

2 new tires for trailer - blew one out last trip, will get two new and put the existing good tire on my 2nd spare ~$160

New VHF radio fixed mount inside the cabin (DRY) as backup w/ whip antenna on port side. Have had issues with my dash mounted vhf getting moisture causing it to not work until it dries out. Also do not trust the little hand held. Need peace of mind. ~$300

My old faithful Garmin 172c gpsmap sh!t the bed last time out. Did not go all the way out but the screen was fading out to the point I was preparing use the compass to get back in from 50 miles out. Instead of dumping $500 - $1000 into a new unit I found another 172c on craigslist in FL, called the guy and he is going to ship it to me. So for a total of $165 it should get me by for a couple more years (hopefully!).

Total: ~$775 (and I just spent $800 on replacing the trim assembly and a new prop a few months ago!)

Gotta love it.

[bradford]

Under a thousand each time? Good job BR!

[steplift20]

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[phatdaddy]

I also had a garmin go dead on me, I got one off of a guy on the hull truth, worked great for bout 6 months, then it died. What I learned was while you still have some life in them ,make sure sure you transfer your numbers to something for safe keeping. I went to gps Babel and got them into a PDF file and can load them to other machines. I have about 400 spots and probably 35 really exist, I just don't know which 35. Garmin does not support any older machines. I think I have an old transfer cable if you need it.

[spareparts]

end cap kits, I don't get the one with the tool, I probably have 10 of those tools laying around from past repairs

[bgreene]

Quote of $ 600 for disks and re pack bearings on the 4 wheels, and I decided to do it myself.

So far going ok.

Thanks for the heads up on hydro steering. I'll check too.

[Blue_Runner]

Phat don't think I can use a data transfer cable with my unit? There is no port that I see. Looks like I can save to a card. Does that mean I can save to a bluechart card??? I have a couple hundred numbers I manually entered in mine, while I don't use them all I'd like to have them without having to go through all that.

[the daydreamer]

blue I had the end seals replaced on mine. problem solved. as I remember it did not cost that much.