Help with Steering 19 foot 1987 Glastron with I/O Mercruiser

[cwmwnw]

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS Does anyone have any diagrams of the steering components for this type of craft? I lost all steering on the lake Wednesday night and it was quite a chore getting to shore. Not many boats out there in the evening lately near Oswego Harbor. Pictures/descriptions/typical trouble points/schematics, etc. would be very helpful.

Details: The steering wheel turns freely full left and full right and there seems to be only one very thick cable that has one large adjustable linkage nut at the prop end and 4 bolts under the sterring wheel. Curious, what is under those 4 bolts in the steering wheel case.

Any ideas appreciated,

thanks

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Edit: Moved to This Old Boat L&M

[holy mackerel]

your cable broke

[Tim Bromund]

That is a rack and pinion steering system (the 4 bolts are attaching the cover plate to the rack).

As thick as the cable is I find it hard to fathom, but I agree, sounds like the steering cable broke

[FX]

Ditto to what was said above - PM Hank at L&M - great knowledge and reasonable prices.

Shawn

[L&M]

No need to post it again on open lake cwmwnw

[L&M]

And as Tim said before. If it's r&c steering the rack is shot or if rotary it's the helm. Very doubtful if it's the cable.

[cwmwnw]

Why no need to post on open lake? I was hoping for schematics for this boats steering and thought it would reach more people. I didn't want to take apart the steering column without having any idea of what was in there. Springs, gears, gaskets, or other.

It seemed very unlikely to be the cable since it is so thick.