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Last Real Texan
05-05-2009, 05:54 PM
Do you have Hydrualic steering? If so, how fast are you

I 'll start

YES
90 plus

Tex

BUIZILLA
05-05-2009, 06:19 PM
define required speed ?

Ed Donnelly
05-05-2009, 06:26 PM
Yes dual external, over 55...Ed

The Hedgehog
05-05-2009, 06:35 PM
My Carolina Skiff has a 25hp Merc and does 26.4 (GPS). I use the Latham full hydraulic steering. I would not think of going anywhere over 20 without it. I initially started with the tiller arm but it was WAY out of control. I then moved to pulley and now the Latham. My current system only has one ram (don't tell anyone). I am having Latham custom fabricate a twin ram.

For tabsI currently have 280S K Planes but it is not enough. I am moving up to 380's.

You guys are just CRAZY!:popcorn:

Donziweasel
05-05-2009, 06:49 PM
For tabsI currently have 280S K Planes but it is not enough. I am moving up to 380's.

I am going to run 10080's. Gonna be 10 ft long........


As for the steering, I put no right now. That will change when and if I ever get my 540 installed. Babies have put the brakes on that.........

I would have like to have tried steering on the 16. She had some serious chine walk above 57 mph.....might have helped.....

Well, off to change a diaper or two.......

osur866
05-05-2009, 06:52 PM
Yes, full dual ram system, I sleep good at night knowing its back there. :) Steve

Conquistador_del_mar
05-05-2009, 07:18 PM
Full dual rams on my Eliminator - over 95MPH. None on my 18' Donzi - expecting 65+MPH. Bill

CHACHI
05-05-2009, 07:22 PM
Yes, dual ram, low 70's.


Ken

CJmike
05-05-2009, 07:37 PM
No
0.00 MPH currently but if I ever get it running again some sort of steering would be nice.
Thats speedo reading I tried to get a gps reading but I must have been moving around in the boat a little which made it 0.01 mph. But it was all kind of blur so I think at those speeds the speedo is more accurate.

gcarter
05-05-2009, 07:51 PM
Yes, full dual ram system, I sleep good at night knowing its back there. :) Steve

So, you sleep at the wheel????
Are your passengers OK w/that?

gcarter
05-05-2009, 07:59 PM
Yes, kind of a Hynautic/Latham/GM Pump/Char-Lynn/Livorsi/ MOMO kind of an amalgamation thingie.
When I brought it home, it went 79 down some mountains on I-75 in Kentucky and Tennessee.
It goes about .005 MPH as I move it around my shop. The speed is severely limited by the furniture dollies it's riding on presently. As soon as I flip the hull back on its bottom and it goes back on the regular boat dollies, I should be able to mave it as fast as I can walk.

Air 22
05-05-2009, 09:10 PM
Zeiger Full Hyd Steering

roadtrip se
05-05-2009, 09:23 PM
of the feedback coming through the steering wheel from the drive flopping around back there with traditional steering systems, or focus on driving the boat and what is going on around you? Pretty easy choice really.

Then there is that safety thing... Merc says 70+ should be hydraulic.

Air 22
05-05-2009, 09:27 PM
Then there is that safety thing... Merc says 70+ should be hydraulic.


What if you don't have a Merc? Can you go faster?:smash:...lol

I agree w ya Tripper...you can't put a price on safety...:wink:

mrfixxall
05-05-2009, 09:31 PM
No!!! im a driver,, 73+ for 24 years:yes:.......call me crazy,ive been driving the boat with the old cable steering and i know what the boats going to do before it happens.. was going 60+ backwards once when i first got my x in 1985, woke me up real quick..

Tony
05-05-2009, 09:42 PM
Internal hydraulic, helm to drive...standard issue with a Volvo DPX!

http://www.marinepartseurope.com/PentaPictures500/15375.jpg

:beer:

SilverBack
05-05-2009, 09:45 PM
of the feedback coming through the steering wheel from the drive flopping around back there with traditional steering systems, or focus on driving the boat and what is going on around you? Pretty easy choice really.

Then there is that safety thing... Merc says 70+ should be hydraulic.


I agree with everything that you said....My boat did 65 stock and if I didn't change but one thing it would have been the steering. Why have the headache and worry...safety first!! There is not way that I would even try to go as fast as I am without it!!!! Everything that you do to a boat cost money..lots of it....why skimp on safety???

Sweet Cheekz
05-06-2009, 07:06 AM
was going 60+ backwards once when i first got my x in 1985, woke me up real quick..

Just for your information that is considered really bad on the drive :)

Full Hydraulic 75 mph so far but not done. NK

hot shot
05-06-2009, 07:45 AM
80 gps and zeiger like dwight ( mr bling ) :shocking::shocking:

Marlin275
05-06-2009, 08:22 AM
Factory installed, original equipment.
Works fantastic!
wheel is steady at any speed
58.553 mph on a good day.

ITTLFLI
05-06-2009, 08:50 AM
Have had Hyd steering since the transplant...:cool!:

The Hedgehog
05-06-2009, 08:59 AM
Have had Hyd steering since the transplant...:cool!:

Now that is what I am talking about!

glashole
05-06-2009, 09:01 AM
since adding hydraulic steering i have literally let go of the steering wheel, and climbed up onto the bow of the boat to take off a rope because I thought someone was going to take a picture and post it on this site under the pictures section AOTH 2009 :pimp:




maybe not literally

but you can let go of the sterring wheel at 80 plus and it is as solid as a rock
straight and true :)

RedDog
05-06-2009, 09:06 AM
since adding hydraulic steering i have literally let go of the steering wheel, and climbed up onto the bow of the boat to take off a rope ...

ah hemmm

don't you mean "take off a line"? :nilly:

Last Real Texan
05-06-2009, 09:09 AM
Have had Hyd steering since the transplant...:cool!:
Smokin!!!!!!!:drive:

Tex

jvcobra
05-06-2009, 09:58 AM
82 MPH 22 Classic, no hyd. steering. I want it but nothing out right now for the King Cobra.

Lenny
05-06-2009, 10:08 AM
71 GPS, no hydraulic steering. (before Christmas)

Gonna be a whole lot faster now :yes: and it IS something I will have to deal with... (once I break this drive and get a BRAVO/shortie)

BigGrizzly
05-06-2009, 10:17 AM
Yes Full Dual ram IMCO for 8 years and MY, not the boats, top speed with TRS full fuel 4 people 86+ repeatable. Now with Konrad We just don't know.

roadtrip se
05-06-2009, 11:00 AM
Have had Hyd steering since the transplant...:cool!:

80-81 seems so slow in the Flowerpot!

Pismo
05-06-2009, 11:23 AM
74-75 in a 22 classic, i need it.

zelatore
05-06-2009, 11:35 AM
Zieger full dual-ram.

Last top speed ~74
Current top speed ~ 0
Soon-to-be top speed 80-something

Air 22
05-06-2009, 09:38 PM
"err, wrong... "

I was wondering how long it was gonna take for you to say that...:wink:

The Hedgehog
05-06-2009, 09:56 PM
My X-18 runs 72 and it has a Hardin Marine single add on. I am happy with it. I will probably go full to the helm one day but not soon.

The 26ZX has IMCO twin ram full hydraulic. It runs 95+. I am happy with the system.

jvcobra
05-07-2009, 10:14 AM
err, wrong... :) :)


Show me.

Dr. Dan
05-08-2009, 05:31 AM
Let me dig up some pics. Special order bracket, we are working on the ram size though yours may be different from the install we are working on now.. You coming to AOTH?

:popcorn:I can always bring my Lil Package to AOTH - I do have some pics also... let me know. I am pretty sure I don't have enough stuff to bring to AOTH whats one more?:cool!:

Anonymous :angel:

Jraysray
05-08-2009, 08:28 AM
Got it, don't need it. I could steer my boat with an oar. Before the neutering, the boat was around 80ish I was told.

mattyboy
05-08-2009, 08:35 AM
the toon has it steers smooth as silk

Ghost
05-08-2009, 03:03 PM
Got it (but with a Nova 24 with twin inboards and rudders, you want it for reasons other than the speed.)

Dr. Dan
05-08-2009, 06:05 PM
:smash::spongebob:Look what I found one day?

:cool!: When I stop buying other boats I will finish this up.... soon Grasshopper!

Anonymous Rectus - Hell it Nearly Killed Us? :popcorn:

Mr X
05-08-2009, 06:28 PM
Yes, I think it is a must at anything over 70 MPH

Last Real Texan
05-08-2009, 07:39 PM
Yes, I think it is a must at anything over 70 MPH
Nice!!!!!

Tex

Dr. Dan
05-08-2009, 09:39 PM
Yes, I think it is a must at anything over 70 MPH

Ted - I thought we decided you weren't going to post anymore pics of your Thermometer anymore. Us Yanks are still trying to break into Spring? :spongebob:

Oh Well - Florida is the Sunshine State!

Doc of Rising Temps & Relative Humidity - I hate Humid Relatives! :doh:

Dr. Dan
05-09-2009, 06:19 AM
D, if ya have room in the truck for the bracket,I have a couple 9" rams behind the seat to trial fit... I was just gonna quietly ship em but I didn't want to stop your heart again..

Yeah I appreciate that, I am hemorrhaging cash right now :angel:

I will bring the Bracket...I'd like to show you a couple of things with it anyway.

Danny the Hemophiliac :doh:

The Hedgehog
05-09-2009, 05:25 PM
:smash::spongebob:Look what I found one day?
:cool!: When I stop buying other boats I will finish this up.... soon Grasshopper!
Anonymous Rectus - Hell it Nearly Killed Us? :popcorn:

That's cool Dan. Is that custom made?