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    Anyone with Zeus Pods?

    Peter, where do you live? I had my parts 2 days after I ordered them through my local Mercury dealer. The boat HAS TO BE ON THE HARD in order to do the seal replacement. Yes, you can remove the transmission without needing to support the pod but in order to replace the actuator seal, the pod...
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    Anyone with Zeus Pods?

    The oil all over the engine room is due to the seal allowing the 350ish psi of steering actuator/trim cylinder pressure to overcome the low gear oil pressure on the opposite side of the seal and pressurize the gear lube side. It’s least path of resistance is out the gear lube bottle monitor...
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    Anyone with Zeus Pods?

    The exhaust dumps out next to the actuator seal. If the exhaust is starved of water flow, even for en extremely short amount of time, (10 seconds) it can cause the seal to become damaged then leak. In my situation, I sucked up a piece of cloth into my sea strainer, completely starving the motor...
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    Anyone with Zeus Pods?

    Update! Mercury just released parts and the tool to replace the steering actuator seal. Boat needs to be on stands still but a lot less work AND MONEY than replacing the entire actuator! I want to thank RK for his help in getting Mercury moving. It’s been a long time coming. My seal kit and...
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    Anyone with Zeus Pods?

    Update....... I spoke with one of the highest in management of Helac Corporation (a division of Parker Hannifin) that builds hydraulic rotary actuators as well as the STEERING ACTUATORS for mercury. While this is a proprietary part between Helac and Mercury, I have been told that Mercury all...
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    Anyone with Zeus Pods?

    We are planning to pull the pod,remove the transmission, and separate the steering actuator over the winter. There is no procedure for disassembling the actuator so that will be a crap shoot. ZF tells me (from what I’ve been told they did not design but do manufacture this assembly) I need to...
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    Anyone with Zeus Pods?

    I too am an extremely unhappy pod owner. I have been dealing with a blown steering actuator seal on my starboard pod. Over the 4th of July we had high winds blow through our area (Mississippi River in LaCrosse, Wisconsin). Debris was blowing all over the sandbar we were at so we decided to be...
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