i checked the cable about 2 years ago and it was good. i did not flush the p/s oil. i will double check the cable an flush the power steering.
do you have much experience with hydraulic steering? im thinking that i will convert to hydraulic steering if all this checks out good. dose hydraulic...
ok, i see what your saying. bondo you seem to be the expert among these forms. i dug into this issue a few years ago and everything seemed to be fine. I'm doing it again to make sure I'm didn't miss anything I'm pretty sure that im going to find that everything is fine.
my question to you is...
the steering is stiff under power and when docking. i notice is much more when docking but only because that is when im turning the wheel the most. i would say it takes the same amount of effort when docking as it dose when im up on plane.
i just realized that since i have a tilt steering...
I have a 96 Mirage 257 with a 98 454 mag Gen 6 engine and bravo 1 outdrive. I've had the boat for 8 years and after driving a friends 25' outlaw with a 496 i notices his steering was much easier then mine, his compare to a car with power steering. mine is not terrible but has never been so easy...
96 mirage 26' with a single EFI 454 mag 385hp with a bravo 1 drive. Dedicated thru hull exhaust (no captains call) and no mufflers
Last night and a few days ago I noticed that my starboard exhaust had what looked like steam (it disipated less then 10' behind the boat) coming out of it. when we...
My girlfriend has been bothering me for some time now to put green LED lights to light up the interior of our 26' mirage, I've decided to go ahead and do it but dose anybody have any recomendations of what brand? Or were to get them?
I'm not looking to spend an astronomical
Amount of money but...
I just got a new (to me) boat, its a 96 257 mirage trovare, it weights 4300lbs, it has a 454 mag MPI/EFI motor with 385 hp with a bravo 1 drive with 1.5 ration. the prop that I have on it is bravo 1 4 blade 22p.
I took it out and I wrote down my rpm vs speed
3400 RPM @ 37.3 MPH= 21% slip
3500...
I just got a new (to me) boat. I had a Lawrence elite 4 on my old boat and loved it so for my new boat I bought a hook 5 gps/fish finder. On this boat I would like to mount the transducer in the boat.
What type of epoxy should I use?
Dose anybody have any experience with mounting a transducer...
I went and looked at a 96 mirage 257 with 454 mag mpi motor in it with a bravo 1 drive. I decided to buy it. So the owner and I took it out for a test drive and I noticed when I came to a stop , the motor did not want to idle down below 1k rpm unles you "blipped" the throttle. I'm brand new to...
Its time for me to get a new primary battery (I have dual batteries). I have a small subwolfer and will be adding 2 more speakers with an amp. My question is, I was thinking of getting 2 batteries to replace the one I have, just a normal 650cca battery.would I be better off doing that or should...
I have a 1990 wellcraft eclipse 216. the owner before me bought a newer shorelandr trailer for it, I have checked the shorelandr website and it is the right trailer for the boat. however I have noticed that my boat is always harder to get centered on the trailer the other people's. the only...
i have a 90 wellcraft with a 305 Chevy and alpha outdrive. my shifter seemed stiff so a couple weeks ago I took it apart. cleaned it greased it (I didn't free up very much) and put it back together. then every so often the motor would stall when shifting. its getting worse and worse. I know I've...
I have an 90 wellcraft with what i belive is original quick silver shifter in it. Last year i changed the shifter and throttle cable in it and when i put it back togather the shifter was really stiff when im in gear but when im in netraul its super smooth. that was my first time i ever changed...
i have a 90 wellcraft eclipse 216. it has a typical bow rail that is about 12" high in front and it wraps all the way around the front. i want to cut it down as much as possable to look a little more like the bow rail on a liberator or a "go fast" boat.
the supports are slanted forward slighly...
