Can not find Mercruiser steering cable replacement

[Merccoper]

I’m trying to find a replacement rack/pinion cable (ssc13415) for my Mercruiser (ya, still working on this) and can’t find one anywhere. At first I searched locally (help out local businesses) and no luck. Expanded to amazon, canada, USA, eBay and shops through out North America. No luck. I tried the SSC 15415 too, still no luck. Any suggestions?

 

[Chris1956]

A lot of times they want you to buy a new helm. So they do not sell cables separately.

You are seaching for a Teleflex cable, right?

 

[Merccoper]

Yup, searching for teleflex and alternative manufactures. I was surprised there were none available, I was beginning to think they were discontinued or something. I could find listings for them but everyone is out of stock. I’m challenged in finding alternatives, even with replacing the helm

 

[Chris1956]

Last time I replaced a steering cable and helm, the local marine store stocked it in the correct length. Not sure why you are having an issue.

 

[Scott Danforth]

could not have looked too hard..... found in under 0.1 seconds on amazon and about 400000000 different locations on the web

https://www.amazon.com/Sierra-SSC13418-SeaStar-Single-Steering/dp/B0000AXUJU

just select the 15 foot. also, as Chris mentioned, your local marine store most likely has it on the shelf

 

[Merccoper]

could not have looked too hard..... found in under 0.1 seconds on amazon and about 400000000 different locations on the web

https://www.amazon.com/Sierra-SSC13418-SeaStar-Single-Steering/dp/B0000AXUJU

just select the 15 foot. also, as Chris mentioned, your local marine store most likely has it on the shelf

I don’t want to sound too much like a **** like you sounded, but that link doesn’t open right, and by the URL you have, you are looking at a SSC13428 while I mentioned SSC13415. If you look for the 15 foot one, you will see that it is not available or not in stock. So ya, I spent more than the 0.1 seconds that you mentioned. I have searched for it and it is out of stock every place I looked. I’ve phone 5 places in my expanded area, each one I called said they could not find one in stock. This forum is a great source of help and I truly appreciate the help and time everyone provides and sorry for being snarky, but posts like yours are of little help.

 

[Scott Danforth]

So look at the other 399k listings. Three of iBoats competitors had stock on a 16 foot and 2 have stock on the 15 foot. Snarky or not, google found a whole bunch of them.