1982 OUTRAGE 18 Hydraulic Steering Hose Length
1982 OUTRAGE 18 Hydraulic Steering Hose Length
I'm installing Seastar hydraulic steering in my 1982 Outrage 18. Does anyone know the proper length for the hydraulic hoses?
Re: 1982 OUTRAGE 18 Hydraulic Steering Hose Length
Are you using a center mount-actuator or a side mount actuator?
A center-mount actuator will need hoses with enough length to allow them to travel with the actuator. With a side-mount actuator the hoses don't move.
A center-mount actuator will need hoses with enough length to allow them to travel with the actuator. With a side-mount actuator the hoses don't move.
Re: 1982 OUTRAGE 18 Hydraulic Steering Hose Length
I'm installing the Seastar front mounted cylinder model Hc5345 (i think that's the same as "center mount").
Re: 1982 OUTRAGE 18 Hydraulic Steering Hose Length
A front-mount--a better term than I used--cylinder is more popular. I don't have a dimension for the length to offer. I'd use a steel tape measure and push it through the rigging tunnel, pull it out at the helm console and measure from there.
Seastar usually has great literature, so follow their recommendations on how to rig the hose attachments to the actuator. I have seen them sometimes routed in a shallow X-crossing, then making loops outward, and then converging together.
If another OUTRAGE 18 owner with front-mount hydraulic steering has a good image of how they've rigged the hoses, I'd like to see it.
Seastar usually has great literature, so follow their recommendations on how to rig the hose attachments to the actuator. I have seen them sometimes routed in a shallow X-crossing, then making loops outward, and then converging together.
If another OUTRAGE 18 owner with front-mount hydraulic steering has a good image of how they've rigged the hoses, I'd like to see it.