Opposite Side Routed Steering Cables And Attaching Kit Installation; Super Ride-Guide Steering Kit Installation; Installing Steering Cables And Steering Link Rods To Engines - Mercury 75 Service Manual

Opposite Side Routed
Steering Cables and
Attaching Kit Installation
(ONE CABLE ROUTED DOWN STARBOARD SIDE
OF BOAT AND ONE CABLE ROUTED DOWN
PORT SIDE OF BOAT)
IMPORTANT: Steering cable must be installed
into tilt tube of "port" engine before engine is
mounted.
Super Ride-Guide Steering Kit
Installation
Install Super Ride-Guide Steering Kit in accordance
with instructions included with Super Ride-Guide Kit.
Installing Steering Cables and
Steering Link Rods to Engines
1. Install tube mounting bracket to (starboard)
mounted engine with 2 locking retainers and 4
bolts. Torque bolts to 100 lbs. in. (11.3 N
m) and
bend end of locking retainers up against flat on
each bolt, as shown in Figure 1.
WARNING
Locking retainer ends must be bent up and
against flat on each bolt, that secures tube
mounting bracket to engine, to prevent bolts
from turning out.
2. Install steering cable mounting tube into mount-
ing bracket with 2 adjustment nuts and tab lock-
washers, as shown in Figure 2. Be sure that long-
er threaded end of tube is toward steering cable
attaching nut side of engine.
7A-8 - ATTACHMENTS/CONTROL LINKAGE
3. Temporarily adjust tube so that longer, threaded
end of tube is aligned with outward edge of tran-
som bracket. DO NOT tighten adjustment nuts at
this time.
a
a - Tube Mounting Bracket
b - Nuts
c - Locking Retainers (Bend Ends Up and Against Flat on
Bolts.)
Figure 1. Tube Mounting Bracket Installed
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b
a - Mounting Bracket for Steering Cable Mounting Tube
b - "J" Clip - Supplied with Outboard
c - Locking Retainers (2)
d - Bolts (4) - 5/8 in. (16mm) Long - Torque to 100 lb. in.
(11.3 N
m), then Bend Corner Tabs of Locking Retainers
Up and Against Flats on Each Bolt
Figure 2. Steering Cable Mounting Tube Installed
4. Install steering cables, as follows:
IMPORTANT: Lubricate inside of (port mounted)
engine tilt tube and inside of steering cable
mounting tube with Quicksilver 2-4-C w/Teflon.
Make sure that rubber O-ring seal (located in en-
gine tilt tube) is lubricated.
a. Lubricate inside of (port) engine tilt tube with
Quicksilver 2-4-C w/Teflon. Make sure that
rubber O-ring seal (located in engine tilt tube)
is lubricated.
b. Lubricate inside of steering cable mounting
tube with Quicksilver 2-4-C w/Teflon.
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