Thanks Lee,
I've been out of town hence my delayed response.
They guy wasn't after the steering setup, he was after the entire drivetrain and dash setup of a junked boat. Apparently the most expedient method was to take a sawzall to it and discard the rest. Sacrilege, I know.
I'm not interested in the cable ends shown in his pics. The full cable setup can still be found on eBay negating the need to undertake any repairs, rather just asking if the components behind the steering wheel and in the intermediate housing are easily swapped out.
-Bill
Dallas, TX
1970 Evinrude
Explorer - 155 Buick V6 - OMC Sterndrive
http://www.photobucket.com/evinrude_explorer
--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Lee Shuster <Lee.Shuster@...> wrote:
From: Lee Shuster <Lee.Shuster@...>
Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Tru-course Steering
To: "'Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's'" <omc-boats@...timate.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:23 PM
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:26 PM
To: Evinrude
& Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's
Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats]
Tru-course Steering
Can you take a look at these pics and give
me your thoughts as to the feasibility of converting my Explorer over?
http://www.4shared.com/file/119671275/7ac61f50/PICT0114.html
The
steering wheel end unit seems bigger than I was anticipating and have no
clue on the intermediate housing end. Could I still use my original
steering wheel?
Thanks.
-Bill
Dallas, TX
1970 Evinrude
Explorer - 155 Buick V6 - OMC Sterndrive
http://www.photobucket.com/evinrude_explorer
---
On Mon, 7/20/09, Lee Shuster (lib1) <lib1@...>
wrote:
From:
Lee Shuster (lib1) <lib1@...>
Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats]
Tru-course Steering
To: "Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's
and 70's" <omc-boats@...>
Date: Monday, July 20,
2009, 6:59 PM
-Bill
Dallas, TX
--- On Mon,
7/20/09, Lee Shuster <Lee.Shuster@...du>
wrote:
From:
Lee Shuster <Lee.Shuster@...>
Subject:
Re: [OMC-Boats] Tru-course Steering
To: "'Evinrude &
Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's'" <omc-boats@...>
Date:
Monday, July 20, 2009, 12:09 PM
:-)
-----Original
Message-----
From: omc-boats-bounces@...
[mailto:omc-boats-bounces@...] On
Behalf Of jd
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 10:22 AM
To:
Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and
70's
Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Tru-course
Steering
HMMMM......i see the fire extinguisher seems
to be
missing...............tsk tsk ......not
safe..... ;)
On Jul 19, 2009,
at 1:01 PM, Lee Shuster (lib1) wrote:
>
Bill,
>
> In my opinion this is an upgrade worthy
of serious consideration for
> all OMC boat owners.
AFter I did mine, I found it makes for much safer
>
operation with a much greater degree of reliability. Steering
effort
> is reduced and tracking is
improved.
>
> First a little history as a lot of
people confuse the (3) steering
> systems that OMC
Electric Stringers could be equipped with:
>
> 1)
Rope-Pulley (Aircraft cable) used on ALL OMC built boats
( a carry
> over the days of outboards)
>
>
2) Mechanical (rack/pinion) with single cable and transom-
penetrating
> tiller arm (popularized by
Kiekhafer's Mercury Ride Guide system, now
> offered by
several vendors).
>
> 3) OMC's unique Tru-Course
(sealed proprietary cable system) (Perhaps
> they
didn't like Mercury's system?)
>
>
>
Tru-Course Steering was introduced by OMC just after our OMC
boats
> ceased production. It is referred to a
Pull-Pull steering system
> (sometimes mistakenly
called a Push-Pull system).
> It's a well-designed
system and if it had been available when our OMC
>
boats were in production, I'm pretty certain it would have
been their
> system of choice. But our boats were
designed in the early sixties,
> almost a decade before
TruCourse came along.)
>
> You can convert your
boat over to it as I have with I replaced my V6
> Buick
with the V8 Chevy.
>
> The conversion requires
changing out the follow items:
>
> 1) Steering
shaft and gear assembly in upper gear case (Tru-Couse and
> Rope-Cable are different!)
>
> 2)
Measuring AND Finding the correct length Cable assembly
for your
> specific application (OMC originally
offered them in 8, 10, 11, 12,
> 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,18,
19, 20 on up to 46 to 50 ft !!)
>
> 3) Removing
the rope pulley from the helm steering shaft and mounting
> the TruCourse adapter.
>
> The downsides
to doing this conversion are finding the correct parts
> which could take awhile. My donor V8 came out of a
TruCourse- equipped
> boat so I didn't have to replace
item 1).
> Item 2) the correct length cable was more of
a challenge. You must
> carefully measure the
helm-to-stern drive shaft to shaft distance to
> +/- 2
inches. Because there's very little margin of error.
>
The finding either a used or NOS TruCourse cable will be a
challenge.
> I found one after months of searching in a
NOS dealer inventory, using
> the OMC part number (I
keep reaching how important OMC Service part
> numbers
are!!) The 3) step at the helm is relatively simple once
> you've covered steps 1) and 2). You'll be able to
retain you stock
> steering wheel but might have some
difficultly getting the existing
> rope pulley off if
there's corrosion.
>
> Good Luck..
>
>
Lee
>
> Below is a picture where the TruCourse
helm connection and cable is
> not yet hooked
up:
>
>
<hp_inst_tn.html.jpg>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
On Jul 19, 2009, at 12:59 PM, BLDFW wrote:
>
>>
I'm curious if anyone converted their cable steering system
over to a
>> Tru-course setup. When I had mine
out the other day, the steering
>> locked up on
mine. I was able to get it unstuck but don't want to
>> have to deal with that if I don't have
to.
>>
>> I see them on eBay running from
175.00 (I think used) to $580 new.
>>
>>
-Bill
>> Dallas, TX
>> 1970 Evinrude
Explorer - 155 Buick V6 - OMC Sterndrive
>> http://www.photobucket.com/evinrude_explorer
>>
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