help with replacing steering cable

[shonuff]

I'm having trouble with replacing the steering cable on my '05 SANTE 210. I'm trying to pull the new cable through from the front to back by duct taping it to the old steering cable.

The new cable is getting hung at the hole in the floor by the helm. As soon as I manage to get the rod through the hole and turned toward the back it gets stuck on something.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks

[DanielC]

Shorten the rudder end as much as is possible. If your boat has a heater, sometimes pulling a heater hose out will give to enough room to move the cable to an angle that it will go past whatever it is hitting.

I believe you can remove the floor, in the middle of the boat, and this will also give you more access. You may have to remove seats, in the back, and possibly the seat on the port side.

You might try pulling the new cable through by tying a heavy piece of wire to it. I have pulled a steering cable with a piece of 12-3 house wire. To get the wire in place, you use the old cable to pull the wire forward.

In one extreme case, I was trying to fish a hose through the "black hole" under the floor in one boat, and no matter what I tried, I could not get the hose to go one way, but I could easily get the hose to go the other way. From the hole by the driver's feet back to the engine. I finally ended up pushing a larger diameter hose the wrong way, and then I pushed the smaller heater hose in to the larger hose, pulled them both back, and then pulled the bigger hose out, and leaving the heater hose in place.

[shonuff]

Thanks. I'll try moving the heater hoses to see if that helps.

Is there a cable tie under there that I don't know about? I'm wondering if I'm not trying to force the new cable through a cable tie that's tightened around the bundle of hoses/cables. If I could only position myself to where I could see down that hole...