Marc Rainaldo
Active Member
Hello all,
When you just bought your new ship and faced different numbers of problems in the first few weeks it’s always nice to make a trip with your family. Of course they are proud and curious too.
In the harbor I always maneuver on my twin engines. I make sure my steering wheel is in the middle. According to the gauge it was in the middle so I didn’t steer much. Somehow I felt it ain’t right but didn’t want to say something to my missus (we were already tired from al the problems we had) and didn’t want to scare the rest of the family.
At the moment we were out of the harbor and hit the throttle my concern became truth: no steering. Now I had to tell everybody hahaha. Panic lol.
I checked everything and found out that oil was leaking from the cylinder.
Since we were already on the water we decided to go for a short slow trip.
Suddenly the wind increased and we went back to our slip. Docking in the slip was no problem.
leaking steering cylinders can be easily fixed. Don’t need to buy a new one and saves a lot of money.
In the USA you have sealkits For almost everything, unfortunately here in the Netherlands not so had to order them separate.
When you ever do a job like this make sure you grease all seals and be very careful with assembling. I had bad luck and 2 times the outer o-ring broke with assembling. And I found out after reinstalling the steering cylinder... not funny.
On YouTube you can find great videos for the de-assembling proces especially with the retaining pin:
Overall easy job with low cost. We were glad we faced this problem now and not at a big trip. Just a worn out issue that you can face on boating....
When you just bought your new ship and faced different numbers of problems in the first few weeks it’s always nice to make a trip with your family. Of course they are proud and curious too.
In the harbor I always maneuver on my twin engines. I make sure my steering wheel is in the middle. According to the gauge it was in the middle so I didn’t steer much. Somehow I felt it ain’t right but didn’t want to say something to my missus (we were already tired from al the problems we had) and didn’t want to scare the rest of the family.
At the moment we were out of the harbor and hit the throttle my concern became truth: no steering. Now I had to tell everybody hahaha. Panic lol.
I checked everything and found out that oil was leaking from the cylinder.
Since we were already on the water we decided to go for a short slow trip.
Suddenly the wind increased and we went back to our slip. Docking in the slip was no problem.
leaking steering cylinders can be easily fixed. Don’t need to buy a new one and saves a lot of money.
In the USA you have sealkits For almost everything, unfortunately here in the Netherlands not so had to order them separate.
When you ever do a job like this make sure you grease all seals and be very careful with assembling. I had bad luck and 2 times the outer o-ring broke with assembling. And I found out after reinstalling the steering cylinder... not funny.
On YouTube you can find great videos for the de-assembling proces especially with the retaining pin: