Stuck cables

[Carolyn Phillip]

Any Bluewater Yacht 51' owners or mechanics familiar with them know where upper and lower stations' throttles and gears cables join on their route to the transmissions and engines? We need to lube or replace a couple of these sticking cables from upper and lower steering stations and to find the location of the joints between these cables--that should be somewhere under floor sole or walls or behind cupboards on their way to the engines and transmissions...??? Ohthankyou for any help/advice!!

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Ms. CP. Usually the upper cables go to the lower station and thence to the engine/transmission so the "junction" is in the lower station "control box".

 

[Keysdisease]

Your control cable runs are either in series or parallel.

Series runs from upper station to lower station to engine/gear
Parallel runs from each station direct to engine /gear

If you have dual lever controls, that is 1 handle controls throttle and 1 handle controls transmission, you probably have one of the above.

There is a third type for single lever controls (1 lever controls both throttle and gear) that involves a transfer box where cables come from both stations and combine and then continue to engine/gear with 2 cables. This system typically will have a station selector control to choose one station or the other.

These cables do not lubricate well or easily, they are not designed to be lubricated. Replacement is the typical repair for controls that are getting stiff. It will only get worse until something breaks.

 

[Comodave]

http://www.all-about-houseboats.com...lubricate-or-save-a-throttle-shift-cable.html

This is a post on the Trojan Forum on lubricating shift and throttle cables. Don’t know if it will help or not. The photo shows the hose assembly to put the oil into the cables.

 

[Carolyn Phillip]

Wow! Thank you and the other kind members for all your savvy, skilled, resourceful and useful help!
Carolyn

 

[Comodave]

I would try lubricating tha cables and see if it works. If it does you are good, if it doesn’t then replace the cables. Not much loss if it doesn’t work.