2012 90hp Mercury Steering cable

I have 2012 90hp Mercury four stroke. This weekend the steering cable broke. However when I look under the helm there are two cables coming out of the box. A larger black cable that runs to the push rod on the outside of the motor. That cable is fine.

There is a smaller diameter gray sheath cable that runs from the steering box to the inside of motor cover and that is the one that broke.

I'm struggling to find out how to replace that cable and what is it called?
Any help is appreciated

Your talking about something that we cannot see, providing pics along with any part numbers or names you see may help

Here are a few pics. I think I figured it out but i could use some advice. Do I just loosen the bolts where the cable enters the steering box?

When replacing mine, I removed the helm, removed the nut holding the jacket and rotated helm until the inner cable came completely out. Took new cable feed into helm in reverse order

The gray sheath is a protection cover to keep grease from getting over other things under the helm

There is only one steering cable. What you see as a gray cable sheath running inside of the engine cowling is not the part shown in your photos... somewhere along the way you mixed that up. That's probably your shifter or throttle cable, as is evidenced by the "cable" in the second photo being white, not gray.
The mass amount of metal spiral looking thing spewing out of the white tube is what goes into the black cable and connects to your engine.
Usually there's just a short black stub that the "slack" end of the steering cable feeds in to when turning the wheel full to port, and inside that black stub is this white tube. Something back at the engine either broke or came loose and allowed someone to force the black sheath off the stub and unwind lots of the inner cable that is pulled and pushed within the cable sheath.
This should make things a bit clearer.

@kd4pbs look a little closer, and note hightide said

This weekend the steering cable broke.

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Thanks all, that helps. To remove the cable do I simply loosen the bolts where the cable enters and exits the steering box?

If your talking about the helm steering box then no.
You remove the nut holding the cable jacket and remove the cable. If your talking about disconnecting the cable at the motor end then yes