1973 Browning Marine
Regular Contributor
A friend of mine recently purchased a 1984 Boston Whaler Newport with a 70 horse Johnson outboard engine. The boat sat for two years and the steering cable froze up at the pivot point at top of transom inner mount. We were finally able to remove cable. We tried to free it up by removing engine and in order to have enough room to remove it from mount. Cable broke! Anyway, we took the numbers off of the old Teleflex cable and the number is as follows: 15-5ft SSC7275 J83. I looked on the Teleflex pdf file and think I found the right one but have tried several sources online and I am not able to get a hit. More info: The engine is a 70 horse Johnson serial #J7132054 and the model is J70TLCDC. The rotary steering seems to be fine and used helm to remove the broken section out of casing. Question: Where to buy?, Who do I talk to? One last thing, on the Teleflex site, I entered the parts pdf file and I think I found the right cable #SSC72XX. I think it read "old style cable" and TS. The problem I am having is that when I try and enter the number, I keep getting no matches found! Maybe a special order part? Any info. or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tom