divetravis wrote:
Pete: My 1998 Ski Nautique started steering hard and sounds similar to yours, it would get easier to steer as I drove it. I replaced the steering cable and the problem was still there. I ended up dropping the rudder out the bottom and upon cleaning everything up found that the rudder shaft and rudder box had some scoring (not a lot). I cleaned both up with some fine sandpaper, relubed everything and put it back together, steers like new. I sure wish Correct Craft had put a grease zerk in the rudder box. This was not really a hard job to do, I had to slide the boat back a bit to get the rudder to clear the trailer (I put it in the lake to do this) then I simply paid attention to how everything came apart. Oh, by the way to get the rudder out I had to remove the gas tank.
Thanks Larry, I'll disconnect the cable from the rudder and see if the wheel is still hard to turn to determine if it's the cable or the rudder.
Pete: My 1998 Ski Nautique started steering hard and sounds similar to yours, it would get easier to steer as I drove it. I replaced the steering cable and the problem was still there. I ended up dropping the rudder out the bottom and upon cleaning everything up found that the rudder shaft and rudder box had some scoring (not a lot). I cleaned both up with some fine sandpaper, relubed everything and put it back together, steers like new. I sure wish Correct Craft had put a grease zerk in the rudder box. This was not really a hard job to do, I had to slide the boat back a bit to get the rudder to clear the trailer (I put it in the lake to do this) then I simply paid attention to how everything came apart. Oh, by the way to get the rudder out I had to remove the gas tank.
Thanks Larry, I'll disconnect the cable from the rudder and see if the wheel is still hard to turn to determine if it's the cable or the rudder.
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