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To lock steering on a 75hp

jct842

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"Is there a way to tighten or

"Is there a way to tighten or lock steering on an older 7.5 hp? In setting up deeprigger's on sides of my boat I have found that the boat must be moving forward and the motor wants to go to the right or left when I let go of it. It then cuts a line. I will have to tie it off unless I could tighten the steering up. on a lot of the older motorcycles they had a knob on the steering stem to tighten them up, a damper I think they called it. A friends 9.8 is worn to the point it has a "notch" in it's steering and goes straight at any speed, mine is in too good of condition to do that. Thanks for reading John"
 
"thanks, but I am using only t

"thanks, but I am using only the one 7.5 motor. I am using a 16' flatbottom duracraft aluminum boat. I have thoughts of drilling and tapping in the side of the mount to thread in a delrin rod to bind against the
"axle" that steering pivots on. to set up 2 downriggers just about takes two in the boat, one to steer and one to hook them up. John"
 
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