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frankr

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quote amuller:

Spent the afternoon on this. It will be usable–motor can steer and tilt. But it’s not thrilling. Roughly measured: The travel lock to lock of the steering arm hole is about 10.75. Travel of the steering push-pull cable is about 8.75. So you were right (not that I would expect otherwise!) about the “reduced steering arc.” It’s about 80 percent. Is this intentional on the part of Teleflex, etc?? Now, tilt tube steering is a much cleaner setup, but does it cure the limited travel?

Thru the tilt tube / push pull steering was a Mercury thing, way back when. They called it Ride-Guide. I don’t know if they had a patent on it or not, but the issue is that it was designed for Merc motors and it took other mfrs a long time to adapt to it and get it right (for their motors). But Merc set the standards.