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Is there any way to salvage this steering cable?
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<blockquote data-quote="lugoismad" data-source="post: 375526" data-attributes="member: 16518"><p>Not really wanting to throw $100 at this right now. Boat isn't ready for the water yet, and I'd hate to put the money into it, only to find out it has other issues.</p><p></p><p>Disconnected my Teleflex cable so I could remote the motor, and paint my console.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/N5au6H1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Cable does have a bad spot in it.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/wc1vt8F.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>However, when it was connected, it would turn the motor smooth and with no issues.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking about sliding some wide heat shrink tube over that, like you would use around an underground electric meter wire junction and shrinking it down. At least to make it last a few months, long enough to get the boat out on the water and make sure there aren't any bigger and more costly issues that might prevent me from using the boat.</p><p></p><p>I'm assuming worst case if my steering cable goes, I can pull the pin connecting the cable to the motor and steer it by hand to get back to the dock.</p><p></p><p>Any thoughts? Any other way I could approach this? Anyone happen to have a used 8' teleflex cable they want to part with at a decent price?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lugoismad, post: 375526, member: 16518"] Not really wanting to throw $100 at this right now. Boat isn't ready for the water yet, and I'd hate to put the money into it, only to find out it has other issues. Disconnected my Teleflex cable so I could remote the motor, and paint my console. [img]https://i.imgur.com/N5au6H1.jpg[/img] Cable does have a bad spot in it. [img]https://i.imgur.com/wc1vt8F.jpg[/img] However, when it was connected, it would turn the motor smooth and with no issues. I was thinking about sliding some wide heat shrink tube over that, like you would use around an underground electric meter wire junction and shrinking it down. At least to make it last a few months, long enough to get the boat out on the water and make sure there aren't any bigger and more costly issues that might prevent me from using the boat. I'm assuming worst case if my steering cable goes, I can pull the pin connecting the cable to the motor and steer it by hand to get back to the dock. Any thoughts? Any other way I could approach this? Anyone happen to have a used 8' teleflex cable they want to part with at a decent price? [/QUOTE]
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