Pricing for Hydraulic Steering
 

Looking to replace my current cable and cable helm with a full hydraulic helm. Pricing directly from IMCO is about $1900 for the helm, hoses, fittings ,and a filter, I am able to use my existing external steering and ps pump. Not looking to cheap out but does this seem a little steep? Any suggestions for other manufactures or distributors? In a previous thread I was recomended to Eddie Young but I havent called him yet, but I intend to.

tbanzer,
I have a friend of mine that makes everything and is higher quality cylinders and hardware than any of them. Custom machine shop that makes most of the steering/suspension components for the big monster trucks. You can reach him via email--sstoutlaw at yahoo dot com (I think) or send me a PM and I can give you his number. Great guy to work with!

Was your friend the one that bought my Stellings box, I was wondering how it worked out for him, Smitty

Ahhh ha, so you know him! Yeah, he bought it a few years ago if it's the one you are thinking? He likes the box but needs more power. I'm trying to talk him into a windmill on top of the thing so his response was that he needs to sell a few steering systems this winter. :)

I just purchased the kit from cp performance. It works awesome.:evilb: I paid $1500 with shipping to NH:evilb:

If I recall, you can get a char-lynn helm unit for around $300, hose and fittings for maybe a couple hundred more.

I completed an add-on system to a full system and it didn't cost anywhere near $1900.

Sure, you get the convienence when buying the kit, but you get seriously up-charged too. A trip to your local hydraulics shop and a little leg work will save you some $$.

I need to do the same thing...need helm, adapter, lines and fittings as well....was looking at CP and talked to eddie @ youngs as well..need to go ahead and get rolling with mine now...where can you get the individual pieces ?

PSC has a Charlynn helm for $250.

PSC ?? sorry....

Thats exactly what I did last week. Should be here any day now so I ll see what it looks like.

PSC has all kinds of hydraulic steering components, mostly for off road, but the steering valves are a great price.

http://www.pscmotorsports.com/motors...teering-valves

Also check out Everett Performance @

http://www.everettperformance.com/

So tell me what cc" unit should you need for a single system and how do you determine that?..................................Rjr........ .......................

do not want tostep on anybodys thread,or sound dumb.but what all is needed for full hyd steering.i have factory hyd streeing with a cable helm.what do i need to make it fullhyd steering?

There is a table in the IMCO catalog that shows helm size / ram stroke, in relation to "lock-to-lock" of your steering.

I had a single ram system that normally uses the 95cc helm, but I used the 120cc with the thought of adding another ram. I never did add the ram, but the steering worked great.

Sounds like you have what is known as an add-on system. Before I converted to a full system, I still had some play in the steering. Once I added the helm, it made a big difference in the precision of the steering.

Just received my parts. Basically you are going to need a helm, steering post, filter, and a bunch of fittings and hydraulic hose. Some say you need a additional tank for fluid capacity and others say its not needed. Imco has an add on kit to complete your current set up to full Hydraulic and CP Performance has a kit made by Mayfair Marine. After a bit of researce I chose the Mayfair kit, it was about $500cheeper and came with the additional tank, and appeared to be a more complete set up IMO, I will see shortly.

I wish I would have got your response sooner I already researched, purchased last week, and got my stuff today.

keep us posted....I am needing to do this now...so with dual rams a 120 pump should do the trick ? thanks

I need to add a completed external system. I have just the cable set up. What would something like that cost and is this something I can do myself? Im mechanicaly inclined and was wounding if this stuff in difficult to do as I would like to save some money by doing it myself. Do these system come with step by step instructions if bought complete? Thanks for the help :coolcowboy: