Finally got everything hooked up on my 25 Sportdeck. I think I have all the air purged out of the system after filling and connecting the lines to the rams but can't be certain as I have never done this before[ATTACH=CONFIG]547007[/ATTACH]. I went lock to lock countless times on the steering wheel to get any air out. It doesn't seem to have any more air that wants to come out but if I grab each side of the wing plates and pull hard in each direction, there is a slight amount of movement. I really have to use a lot of muscle to make it move, so much that I'm making the trailer sway back and forth on its tires. The engines might have a total of 1/4" to 3/8" of movement. Should they be rock solid or is this normal?

no rock solid..... keep bleeding

Mine are stable with no movement at all. To bleed the final air out of the system this is what I did. I tried all of the other ways and none of them worked except this one. DaveM posted this a while back.

Marine machine told me to ....
open the fitting furthest from the transom first.
turn wheel 3/4 way to right.
close fitting after no bubbles.
open fitting closest to transom.
turn wheel 3/4 way to left.
close fitting after no bubbles

Only thing I added was to make sure the cylinder that I was bleeding was not extended.

Turbo rr, when you say open the fitting do you mean open it all the way or just enough for fluid/air to come out?

Let me ad that Ron at Imco suggested connecting the rear fittings to each other. The front fittings connect to the helm. With the lines like this, I cannot bleed the rears. Ron thought that since I was using my Hynautic/Seastar helm that came with the boat, my steering would have a better ratio since it isn't adjustable like the Capilano helm which would not fit under the dash.

Similar to Turbo's process. This is how I do every steering system and have no issues.

http://www.everettperformance.com/PD...ING_SYSTEM.pdf

if your helm is a square model .. you have to use a fluid/air can also

It is a round unit.

got pics of it.... 2.0 volume like a seastar pro unit???

I think I finally got mine correctly bled. New 2.4 helm and sea star tournament rams. Not quite as cool as your set up.....

But same principle.

I bled mine 4 or 5 times. Let it sit and bled it again the next day. I had a lot of micro bubbles. I'd get it tight one night and the next day it would feel sloppy again.

You can hose the ram bleeders together or run 2 lines into a clear bucket to recycle it back into the helm to keep bleeding.

Not sure what Imco recommends for fluid but I googled that for seastar you can use Napa hydraulic jack fluid or AW32 instead of blowing $20 qt on seastar ****

Go on YouTube. Some pretty good how to vids