[C320-list] steering issue

[Dave Hupe]

You might want to check your steering quadrant where you steering mechanism stops on hard turns each way. Maybe rather than stopping it caught somehow. It has been a long time since I looked at mine so I don't recollect details. However, I believe you would need to observe this being down inside the aft port hatch and having someone turn the wheel, or you can manually spin the quadrant below. 
Dave Hupe 
1994 C320 #32

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  On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 9:03 PM, Louis Friedman via C320-list<c320-list at lists.catalina320.com> wrote:   update on steering issue - cable is intact and has good tension. I tried
the emergency tiller, if I turn it, the wheel turns with it and vice
versa.  Actually  had someone  scheduled to clean the bottom of the boat
today - asked him to take a look and he said prop, struts intact, rudder
looks ok and centered(steering wheel centered as well).  I'm tempted to
just give it another run around the mooring field with someone spotting me.

Lou
#623

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 9:11 PM Troy Dunn <troutwarrior at gmail.com> wrote:

> Under forward power the rudder acts just like the jet system on a personal
> water craft, the boat turns because the flow is diverted by the rudder.
> The same is not true when you are in reverse.  With the rudder hard over
> you would get the result you described.  Suspect you gave a steering cable
> or chain to failure.  Definitely need to check to see  if your emergency
> tiller still works since that will help determine if you have an additional
> reason that the cable failed (e.g. something jammed in between the strut
> and the rudder.  )
>
> Good luck, definitely curious to hear what you find out.
>
> Troy Dunn
> Hull#514
>


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