Help outboard hydraulic steering hose advice/replacement

[Denney767]

Hello, I have a 99 mariner 200hp 2 stroke. I lost all steering last weekend and looking at the hydraulic steering- I found a 90 degree bend on the line running from. The steering to the steering. I may attach a picture. How difficult a job is replacing or repair in these things VS just taking it to a shop. I'm concerned a shop might be 5 to 600 after calling around but they couldn't yell me fie sure. They all stated the hose hits are over 200 bucks as you have to buy a pair.. I was able to find this online store that appears to sell singles, anyone hears of this ? Has anyone replaced these things either diy or through a shop? Thanks guys

[Denney767]

Here's the website

[keeferfish]

My advise go hydraulic!
I've had the same boat since 1995, it's a 1993 and replaced cables at least once and had other work from time to time, went hydraulic and should have done it the very first time!

[fiveeyes]

Any decent hydraulic shop can make what you need, probably for a fraction of the cost. These hoses are not rocket science.
I worked in a heavy equipment shop, for many years, we had all of ours made locally.

[Snubby]

I agree with fiveeyes, a hydraulic hose shop should be able to make up new hoses and fittings. As far as how complicated they are to work on is not very hard. I had to replace the end caps on my sea star hydraulic steering a couple years ago. It's a bit tricky getting new fluid into the cylinder and bleeding the system of air properly. I did it by myself, two guys would make it easier. Plenty of videos out there to guide you through the process. If it was me I would replace both lines and probably go ahead and replace end caps with new o rings etc.

And I may have misunderstood, if you don't have hydraulic steering that would be my advice is to buy the system and be done.

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[catchNgrease]

Any decent hydraulic shop can make what you need, probably for a fraction of the cost. These hoses are not rocket science.
I worked in a heavy equipment shop, for many years, we had all of ours made locally.

Thinking the same. I'm sitting at work and have the capability 100yrds from where I sit. Even Advance Auto can do em

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