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Cheetah 09-08-2013 10:32 AM

Hydraulic steering pump lacking at low RPM
 
Group, I have single bravo with a mayfair dual ram add on kit. The kit works great but the pump seems to struggle to keep up with dual rams on idle when manuvering around the dock. Has anyone experimented with a different pully size to give it a little more rpm at idle? Obviously it will spin faster throughout th RPM range so I am not sure if this is the best plan. Not sure what issues I might have at WOT? Just curious to see if anyone else has found a solution to this. If so, what size pully did you use?

toyo321 09-08-2013 12:35 PM


Originally Posted by Cheetah (Post 3990588)
Group, I have single bravo with a mayfair dual ram add on kit. The kit works great but the pump seems to struggle to keep up with dual rams on idle when manuvering around the dock. Has anyone experimented with a different pully size to give it a little more rpm at idle? Obviously it will spin faster throughout th RPM range so I am not sure if this is the best plan. Not sure what issues I might have at WOT? Just curious to see if anyone else has found a solution to this. If so, what size pully did you use?

You have to drill out your power steering valve orifice to 11/64. Even Imco recommends this to be done to a stock mercruiser power steering pump, to allow more PS fluid to flow at lower rpm operations during docking conditions.


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