can't get steering cable pulled out

Removing the big nut from the helm box?

did you disconnect the tube from the clamp block?

jimrogers74 wrote: do you mean the box at the rear of the boat under the floor? does that have to be taken apart? i wasn't successful in finding a schematic of what that was like, and was trying to avoid cutting the carpet to remove that back center section of floor. do you think i'm going to have to do that?

I'd think you need to get this apart before the cable can come out. I'll try and find a picture.

Thats it! now I remember.
i'm going to have to cut the carpet, and pull off that nut back there. Thanks for the picture. It answers my question, just not the way i wanted. I'm going to get to cut the carpet out and have to take out that center part of the floor so i can reach it.
solved, thanks.

Jim,

You can just remove the 4 small bolts and separate the top from the bottom of the block.

Good work Jim! Our 96 has a case of the steering cable-itis. New one is goin in tonight!

Thanks for the morning chuckle Chris, that's a shot from a while back!

That pic also shows where the removable floor fits. Jim, it should be a little wider than the carpeted area beside the engine. Look for the seams before you cut into the carpet.

you're correct moj. i have carpeted this thing twice in the last 30 years. the last time i carpeted across the whole boat because i thought it looked nice.
both times i replaced the floor piece w/ nice fresh treated plywood, and it's still in good shape.
it will be all fine, i'll just have to get some nice trim to bolt down over the cuts. but first i will have a go at getting it out through the black portal, but don't have much faith that i'll be able to work blind underneath too well. .... even if i can get it out, i'm sure it will be tougher to get the new one back in working through that hole.
the carpet isn't really sacred, as (per a stringer post i had going yesterday) there's a good likelihood that i'll have a long hard love affair with my stringers next winter. that will entail new carpet. .... unless i follow through with this crazy idea to line the floor w/ some thin teakwood deck boards. anybody remember that nautique they did one year in a magazine w/ wood floor? it was pretty cool. dark green i think...it had a catchy name, but forget what it was.

It was a Paragon. 1993. Learned something today about the floors on the older skis.

BKH

Chris,
You won't have the slightest chance of getting to the clamp block through the inspection port and probably not even from the rear with the seat removed. However, I might be able to!!

bkhallpass wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: Chris, You won't have the slightest chance of getting to the clamp block through the inspection port and probably not even from the rear with the seat removed. However, I might be able to!! Ouch. +1 for the skinny guys. Is that with our without removing the three layers of turtle necks. BKH

so noted, thanks.
ya, i didn't want to muddy the water by clarifying, but i wasn't planning to mess with that adjustment.