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So I just disconnected the steering line/cable from my mercruiser alpha one. It has power steering. It had been seized up in the tube where the steering cable enters in. Now that it is out, we cleaned up the shaft and pipe where it goes in, lubed it all up and put it back in the pipe but it...
I have a Mercruiser Alpha One (thunderbolt ignition and power steering) with the 5.7 liter chevy motor in my Crestliner 195 Crusader (late eighties model I think). I just picked up this boat, and when I try and run the boat I know the motor was recently rebuilt, but hasn't been run in a year or...
