I am serious need of the pinion assembly part (minus the actual racks/cables) of the picture below labeled "The Old Helm". Was replacing my steering wheel on my 1998 Stratos 273 only to find the previous owner stripped the threads on the end of the main shaft. Considering the speeds we run this stratos 273 at I began to disassemble. Around 2 hours later & a lot of swearing I had succeeded in completely destroying this unit to get the steering wheel off. I need to save some $$$ to buy an updated system or convert to hyd, but if anyone has the old school dual pinion assembly I would love to buy it so we are not down for an extended period of time. Not too mention I just sunk money in a rebuilt lower unit. Mine has the two separate racks like pictured below with each having a cable run to my Johnson 150 Fast Strike.
Picture compliments of http://www.brushyland.com/fishing/steering.htm
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