Originally Posted by
FUJIMO
At that specific point in time, V-6 outboard hydraulic steering didn't really exist. HyNautic was a poor exception, with a tilt-tube cylinder & H-50 helm, that came out a year or so later. Everyone was still steering their V-6's with Ride-Guide. Wiithin a year or so, HyNautic came out with the front mount K-10 cylinder, Latham Marine produced side mount cylinders, then tilt-tube side cylinders, then front-mount cylinders, and then everyone else evolved they're systems. We tested and prototyped 2.4/200 HydraSteer midsections as well, at the same time, that never went into production. Every 300 HydraSteer I saw at the dealer level was removed, hydraulic steering installed, then seatrialed/delivered to the customer. The consumer 300/3.4 lower unit water pump went through three major design changes within the first four years of production.
Be careful Fugi - one of these days you will say something that will jog my memory and I will figure out who you are! I ran one of the proto Hydra steers on a 200 mid - running at WFOT trimmed to the moon, chopped the throttle, got a instant case of torque reversal - that was enough for me to poo poo the idea.
Which just jogged my memory - very few people know that HydraSteer was first tried on MerCruiser Alpha.
