Hydraulic hose blew in aft

[captfrank]

Well put the boatin and as luck would have it blew a hydraulic line for steering. Its on starboard side looks like connections behind ac unit but almost no room. Anyone have to do thos job before? Nest to lift floor or remove ac or can do without that?

[retman]

Might be time to run new lines and pull out the old ones.

[captfrank]

Ever replaced them to the fly bridge. Looks like a monster job quote:Originally posted by retman Might be time to run new lines and pull out the old ones. Bill Arnold 1988 33 FBC Merc 454 'Retriever'

[HRay]

Possible to do w/o lifting the deck. On my 84, they ran up on the port side. Bleed them out first to minimize a mess. Behind the port panel cover fwd of bridge ladder I found fittings. I was able to squeeze behind the port AC unit (not fun) to break the fittings apart. Pulled bottom lines out towards stern. Then pulled other set of lines upward and out from bridge. Tied an electrical snake when removing the old ones to pull the new lines. Took a full Saturday.

[captfrank]

quote:Originally posted by HRay Possible to do w/o lifting the deck. On my 84, they ran up on the port side. Bleed them out first to minimize a mess. Behind the port panel cover fwd of bridge ladder I found fittings. I was able to squeeze behind the port AC unit (not fun) to break the fittings apart. Pulled bottom lines out towards stern. Then pulled other set of lines upward and out from bridge. Tied an electrical snake when removing the old ones to pull the new lines. Took a full Saturday. Well my 80 had lines on starboard and could not physicality fix so pulled deck. Lines out in 2hrs. Took. Another 4+hrs to install and bleed to get system working. While under there the ac platforms bad. Tbats turning out to be just as hard as dont want to disconnect to lose r22 so have to suspend and work under it to replace