How you doing guys so I have a problem I was traveling southbound in North Carolina when my steering gave way on the lower helm I had to throw it in neutral anchor down thinking that I lost hydraulic upon going to the upper helm I realized I had steering there so my wife bundled up in this freezing cold weather that we have today and started to sail the trawler from the upper helm while I went in search of what the problem can be after checking everything I discovered that the steering wheel is just spinning on the shaft I tried to tighten down the nut but that didn't help much I still had no steering
I took the nut off got the washer off took the steering off of the shaft and a small moon shape piece of metal I'm assuming is a keyway fell on the floor I put it back in round side into the shaft and put the steering wheel back on put the washer then the nut and then for just a couple of minutes I had steering and then back to the steering wheel doing nothing and the wife running back upstairs while I work on it some more.
To get to the next Marina I put the steering wheel back on and the little square that I saw I stuck a drill bit in there which held the steering wheel to I got to the marina it doesn't seem like if the key way is broken it looks like a half of a moon can someone please give me some suggestions as we are on our way to Florida and don't want to sit in North Carolina in the middle of nowhere in the freezing cold. Thank you for any replies in advance
I took the nut off got the washer off took the steering off of the shaft and a small moon shape piece of metal I'm assuming is a keyway fell on the floor I put it back in round side into the shaft and put the steering wheel back on put the washer then the nut and then for just a couple of minutes I had steering and then back to the steering wheel doing nothing and the wife running back upstairs while I work on it some more.
To get to the next Marina I put the steering wheel back on and the little square that I saw I stuck a drill bit in there which held the steering wheel to I got to the marina it doesn't seem like if the key way is broken it looks like a half of a moon can someone please give me some suggestions as we are on our way to Florida and don't want to sit in North Carolina in the middle of nowhere in the freezing cold. Thank you for any replies in advance