Sharphooks
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I have a Seastar kicker tie bar that has given me problems ever since it was installed. My guess is the internal tube was not properly lubed with grease during the original installation. After one season it froze up (at the worst possible time....just after launching and I was left with a powered up main engine that couldn't be steered.)
I managed to straighten out the bent stainless cable that connects to the main and was able to free up the cable that had frozen up in the kicker tilt tube and got a full summer's use out of it but this week it froze up again and I bent the stainless "cable".....not sure I can straighten it out again
The question: how difficult is it to remove the cable and replace with a new one? I spoke to a Seastar rep yesterday and he was amazingly unhelpful. He started off telling me I probably would have to remove my kicker from the boat to swap out a new cable....wtf?
My concern is the bent part of the cable at the main engine side (the threaded portion). If I cut off the bent section, remove the nut that connects the cable to the kicker steering flange, will I be able to just pull the old cable out and insert the new one or do I have to remove all the hardware at either end of both tilt tubes?
Thanks for any comments out there...BTW, it's a 28" cable...replacement part No. is HP6228
I managed to straighten out the bent stainless cable that connects to the main and was able to free up the cable that had frozen up in the kicker tilt tube and got a full summer's use out of it but this week it froze up again and I bent the stainless "cable".....not sure I can straighten it out again
The question: how difficult is it to remove the cable and replace with a new one? I spoke to a Seastar rep yesterday and he was amazingly unhelpful. He started off telling me I probably would have to remove my kicker from the boat to swap out a new cable....wtf?
My concern is the bent part of the cable at the main engine side (the threaded portion). If I cut off the bent section, remove the nut that connects the cable to the kicker steering flange, will I be able to just pull the old cable out and insert the new one or do I have to remove all the hardware at either end of both tilt tubes?
Thanks for any comments out there...BTW, it's a 28" cable...replacement part No. is HP6228
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