How to fill seastar hydraulic steering

If it is deemed excessive the first thing I would check is the steering cylinder. Fill the bottle with steering fluid to.

In your first post you mentioned that when you rattle the wheel back and forth firmly that the wheel migrates from original position while the motor stays centered.

How to fill seastar hydraulic steering. Remove the vent plug from the top of the helm. Screw the threaded end of the filler tube into the helm filler port. Remove the cap from the steering fluid oil bottle and holding upright screw into the filler tube bottle cap.

Turn the oil bottle upside. FILLING AND PURGING HYDRAULIC STEERING Step 4 TURN COUNTER-CLOCKWISE OPEN LEFT SIDE BLEEDER CLOSE RIGHT SIDE BLEEDER TURN COUNTER-CLOCKWISE Continue turning the steering wheel counter-clockwise until the cylinder rod is fully extended to the left. Steering wheel will come to a stop.

Open the left bleeder. FRONT MOUNT CYLINDER SIDE MOUNT SPLASHWELL. 38 SEASTAR Hydraulics FILLING AND PURGING HYDRAULIC STEERING Step 4 Continue turning the steering wheel counter-clockwise until the cylinder rod is fully extended to the left.

Steering wheel will come to a stop. Open the left bleeder. TURN COUNTER-CLOCKWISE OPEN LEFT SIDE BLEEDER FRONT MOUNT CYLINDER Number of Steering Wheel Turns Step 5.

FILLING AND PURGING HYDRAULIC STEERING Proper fluid level set can be obtained by opening right bleeder and turning steering wheel to the right until fluid level reaches top of plastic filler fitting and then turning wheel one more full turn. CAUTION For unbalanced cylinders the fluid level in the helm must be set with the cylinder rod fully. Install the Hydraulic Steering.

Connect the SeaStar hydraulic steering cylinder to the tilt tube and the tiller arm. The new hydraulic kit should include a tiller bolt and nyloc nut. Put a little grease on the threads before you insert the washers and tighten up the nuts.

DO NOT remove the tiller bolt to re-grease the cylinder Check out the SeaStar Solutions Training Video here. Steering tilt tube and re-grease using a good quality marine grease. Grease support rod liberally 4.

Grease all contact points shown in Figure 37. DO NOT remove tiller bolt to re-grease. Remove steering wheel and re-grease wheel shaft using a good quality marine grease.

Inspect hydraulic oil for cleanliness flush if required. Thread filler tube into helm pump. Thread bottle of fluid onto filler tube.

Poke a hole into the bottom of the bottle or cut the bottom off and create a funnel. Turn bottle upside down like an IV. Turn steering wheel hard to starboard.

Open starboard bleeder nipple located on the steering cylinder. 38 SEASTAR Hydraulics FILLING AND PURGING HYDRAULIC STEERING Step 4 Continue turning the steering wheel counter-clockwise until the cylinder rod is fully extended to the left. Steering wheel will come to a stop.

Open the left bleeder. TURN COUNTER-CLOCKWISE OPEN LEFT SIDE BLEEDER FRONT MOUNT CYLINDER Number of Steering Wheel Turns Step 5. In your first post you mentioned that when you rattle the wheel back and forth firmly that the wheel migrates from original position while the motor stays centered.

That is normal for hydraulic steeringto a point. If it is deemed excessive the first thing I would check is the steering cylinder. It has a single piston with two sets of seals.

Recommended oils for your steering system are. SeaStar Fluid PN HA5430 1 quart HA5440 1 gallon. The following brands are acceptable.

Chevron Aviation Hydraulic Fluid A Esso Univis N15 or J13 Mobil Aero HFA Petro Canada Harmony HV115 in Canada only Shell Aero Fluid 41 Texaco HO15 and other fluids meeting MIL SPEC H-5606-G. The SeaStar Hydraulic Steering System is designed to provide that extra margin of muscle when needed and easily handles Outboard Sterndrive and Inboard engines in boats up to 50 feet. System selection installation and service is substantially simplified with just three major components.

Use a piece of white paper as an oil finder or put some UV ac leak dye in the system run it for a day and use a UV light. How tight are the elbow fittings into the cyl. And the hose fittings onto the elbows new installs commonly leak here.

Use only the recommended Teleflex Loc-Tite PST sealer no teflon pipe tape. Cut the bottom off an empty SeaStar steering fluid bottle. Securely mount or hang the bottle upside down above the highest helm on the boat.

Remove the plug from the top of the helm pump and connect the bottle to the fitting with a clear hose and appropriate fitting adapters. Fill the bottle with steering fluid to. All that matters is that you have the helm pretty full.

With the version with the oil plug on top of the helm pump the fluid should be about ¼ below the bottom of the threads. Any fuller and you will get some leakage when the temp gets hot in the summer if you fill it in the winter. Upgrading the system to SeaStarSeaStar Pro steering.

This will reduce the steering effort due to the fact that SeaStar steering provides more output power resulting in lower steering effort. Due to a small amount of internal hydraulic slip a master spoke or centered steering wheel cannot be maintained with a hydraulic steering system. Brass Helm Fill Adapter.

5-gallon bucket for easy storage and transport. 12 Thin wrench for bleed fittings Step 1. Connect the Return Line.

After you have replaced the SeaStar Steering Seals in your steering cylinder and have emptied the old fluid and introduced air into the system youll need to connect the return line to the bleed. Once its threaded in you connect the other end of the tube to the cap and install it on the bottle of hydraulic fluid. The vacuum created by the sealed circuit wont let you fill the reservoir so you need to punch a hole SeaStar provides a small pin for that in the bottom of the bottle.

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I found a perfect match at a local seal supply store. If you hold your wheel straight and the boat starts to slowly turn unless you keep feeding in a steering correction that hydraulic ram seal needs replacement and it is more than likely that on an older boat the cylinder itself has a grove worn in the inside where that. Bubble Purge SeaStar Hydraulic Steering Bleed Repair OST - YouTube.