Very stiff to steer

[claupie]

Is it normal on late models pulsare 2100n for the hydro steering to be very stiff to steer on speeds exceeding 55 mph..To stiff to help correct chine walk at over 65 mph ???
Thanks
Pierre

 

[kct11]

mine makes ya work a it.....

 

[hotdaddy27]

Mine gets pretty stiff when the slider is all the way up (3/4" below the bad to even with the pad.) It doesn't seem to happen till over 60 (GPS) though.

But I have a Sport Master so it may react a bit different.

I still have not mastered the chine walk yet either! Key word being YET!

 

[ross]

i got a torque tab from boatman that helped a ton! just rivet it on the skeg and it takes 90% of the torque steer out!

 

[claupie]

Mine gets pretty stiff when the slider is all the way up (3/4" below the bad to even with the pad.) It doesn't seem to happen till over 60 (GPS) though.

But I have a Sport Master so it may react a bit different.

I still have not mastered the chine walk yet either! Key word being YET!

I'm at top holes on the motor and the jack plate all the way up and 2 1/4 in below pad w/TM lower unit..(no hydro lift)

 

[claupie]

i got a torque tab from boatman that helped a ton! just rivet it on the skeg and it takes 90% of the torque steer out!

Never heard of torque tab..What do they look like ..

 

[hotdaddy27]

Torque Tab

It is a small angled piece of metal that you can rivet or rivet/epoxy to the trailing edge of the skeg. The theory (and it works) is that it counteracts the "torque" that the prop makes leading you in one direction.

The sportmaster has it molded in from the factory, I don't believe that the torquemaster does, but I could be mistaken.