Turtle Blues
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 19, 2020
- Messages
- 424
- Location
- Chesapeake Bay USA
- Vessel Name
- High Noon V / SV Evelyn
- Vessel Make
- Golden Star 42 / Ericson 30 / Yard full of trailer boats
Have single station manual helm. Installed tees at lines entering the lower valve block and installed a drive pump for the nav system.
Refilled system and did the usual spin the wheel back and forth to purge system. After several times it went from infinite to 6 turns each way and everything felt fine lock to lock.
Turned on the old rudder indicator and was surprised to see that I was driving the rudder backwards, confirmed visually. None of the existing was altered, hoses and lines only fit one way. Pump was not in operation.
Question; Is it possible to have moved one of the internal valves to a bad position during the pressurization and purging and causing this? Don't think there is anything on the Octopus pump block that could cause reverse pressure.
It is on the branch of the tees installed between the lines and the relief valve block.
Refilled system and did the usual spin the wheel back and forth to purge system. After several times it went from infinite to 6 turns each way and everything felt fine lock to lock.
Turned on the old rudder indicator and was surprised to see that I was driving the rudder backwards, confirmed visually. None of the existing was altered, hoses and lines only fit one way. Pump was not in operation.
Question; Is it possible to have moved one of the internal valves to a bad position during the pressurization and purging and causing this? Don't think there is anything on the Octopus pump block that could cause reverse pressure.
It is on the branch of the tees installed between the lines and the relief valve block.