Bleeding Hydraulic steering

[Mike Langianese]

I would like to bleed any air in my hydraulic steering, can it be done by one person?<br />I read this somewhere but I'm not sure I have it right. Does anyone know if this will work?<br /><br />Join the bleeder valves on the cylinder together with a hose<br /><br />open the bleeder valve on each end of the cylinder. <br /><br />Attach your fluid bottle and filler tube to the helm as normal and then turn the wheel back and forth several times. <br /><br />I'm thinking that any air will travel though the system and back out the fill bottle.<br /><br />Any ideas??? <br /><br />Mike

 

[Mike Langianese]

Re: Bleeding Hydraulic steering

Anyone do it this way?

 

[Dhadley]

Re: Bleeding Hydraulic steering

What brand system? Teleflex, Hynautic (which one?), U-Flex, Hy-Drive, IMCO, Latham, etc?

 

[Mike Langianese]

Re: Bleeding Hydraulic steering

Sorry Dhandley, I had a brain freez.<br /><br />Teleflex, SeaStar system, single cylinder, Helm is also hooked up to a Simrad AP12 autopilot if that will make any difference. SeaStar is very helpful but recommends the two people, bleed one side of the cylinder at a time method.<br /><br />Thaks for your interest.<br /><br />Mike

 

[Dhadley]

Re: Bleeding Hydraulic steering

All you gotta do is get close with that system. It'll almost bleed itself after that. Good choice on systems!<br /><br />Good luck!

 

[Mike Langianese]

Re: Bleeding Hydraulic steering

Thanks for the vote of confidence but I didn’t have anything to do with the choice of hydraulics.<br />19 year old boat that I bought late last fall and with the help of the forum have been doing some "deferred maintenance" off and on all winter. <br /><br />Just got the props back from the shop…Now if I can just get it in the water.

 

[Scuda11]

Re: Bleeding Hydraulic steering

Was doing a search and found this, want to see what the result was Crabby Mike...<br /><br />I have the same system, and need to do the same.<br /><br />HH5271 helm,<br />HC5347 cylinder<br /><br />Thanks!<br />Scuda