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Vibration in steering column

tmacwake

By tmacwake,
in Maintenance, Tech Info & Troubleshooting

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I was in a friend of mines boat last year (06' VLX) which was pretty well weighted, 2000ish?? lbs. Anyway, I noticed that when you accelerated there was a pronounced rattle/vibration felt in your hands on the steering wheel. It felt as though it was coming up the steering column. I thought it was because of the weight in his boat. Well I now have a VTX with the same engine (340 Monsoon) and it is doing the same thing. Does anyone have this same issue???? Is it normal when there is ballast in the boat????

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it's not uncommon, it's just slight slop in the steering rack

the easy fix is the loosen the four bolts on the steering rack, twist the rack slightly and retigthen

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