AQAD41A engine with early 290-DP drive.
I recently purchased a new steering yoke kit with protection cap P/n 873183 as the sealing ring had let salt water past and had badly corroded the steering shaft just below the spline where the steering arm mounts on.
I had Volvo Penta certified mechanic around to reinstall the drive for me. The first thing he noticed was the old steering arm would not fit on the splines of the new steering yoke kit (very close) he said the steering arm should side on with little or no force required (yes he tried spreading the fork at the pinch slot various widths) I ordered a new steering arm P/n 853017 which matches the steering yoke kit above thinking that maybe the old steering arm may have become distorted over time or misuse. However the same issue occurred when we tried to fit the new arm to the new fork - I used the same Volvo mechanic again (he is one of the best in our region) we tried the new arm and the old arm back on the original old steering fork, there is still a reasonable amount of spline left at the top of the shaft to fit on - both slid on by hand.
I went back to the company I purchased the fork and arm from from - another Volvo Penta dealer.
He to was little mystified as to why it would not fit on easily as he had just fitted 2 new steering forks to a vessel a couple of weeks back and they just slid into the old arming arms without any problem.
It is as though the spline on the aluminum shaft/yoke is slightly over size, he rang Volpower New Zealand to see if they new of any issue, but no and of coarse they have ran out of steering arms until sometime in Apirl so they couldn't check themselves.
They sent down a new steering yoke kit so he could compare, I have just been in to look at it and it looks to have the same issue. Forcing the steel steering arm on looks as though it will gall up the the aluminum splines on the steering shaft
Has anyone encountered this issue before?
I recently purchased a new steering yoke kit with protection cap P/n 873183 as the sealing ring had let salt water past and had badly corroded the steering shaft just below the spline where the steering arm mounts on.
I had Volvo Penta certified mechanic around to reinstall the drive for me. The first thing he noticed was the old steering arm would not fit on the splines of the new steering yoke kit (very close) he said the steering arm should side on with little or no force required (yes he tried spreading the fork at the pinch slot various widths) I ordered a new steering arm P/n 853017 which matches the steering yoke kit above thinking that maybe the old steering arm may have become distorted over time or misuse. However the same issue occurred when we tried to fit the new arm to the new fork - I used the same Volvo mechanic again (he is one of the best in our region) we tried the new arm and the old arm back on the original old steering fork, there is still a reasonable amount of spline left at the top of the shaft to fit on - both slid on by hand.
I went back to the company I purchased the fork and arm from from - another Volvo Penta dealer.
He to was little mystified as to why it would not fit on easily as he had just fitted 2 new steering forks to a vessel a couple of weeks back and they just slid into the old arming arms without any problem.
It is as though the spline on the aluminum shaft/yoke is slightly over size, he rang Volpower New Zealand to see if they new of any issue, but no and of coarse they have ran out of steering arms until sometime in Apirl so they couldn't check themselves.
They sent down a new steering yoke kit so he could compare, I have just been in to look at it and it looks to have the same issue. Forcing the steel steering arm on looks as though it will gall up the the aluminum splines on the steering shaft
Has anyone encountered this issue before?