Re: Steering cable mount point?

[frankr]

quote amuller:

This may be departing a bit from being a strictly outboard question but I’m not finding much information:

The boat has push-pull steering, and since it’s a pre-tilt-tube motor, the cable end, actually a rigid sleeve, is held by a bracket with a ball-and-socket setup. Teleflex calls it a “clamp block” (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Teleflex-SA2705 … 2082871467) This means that the cable moves quite a bit when the motor is tilted. I’m thinking that the bracket should be both lowered, and moved further from the centerline of the boat towards the stb. side, so as to reduce cable motion where it passes through a bellows. I’ve not found anything on how to work out the proper position for this and don’t want to drill the transom experimentally. Can anybody advise, or point me to literature on how best to set this up?

Thanks.

Your thoughts are sound