EZ Steer Issue

[antney1]

I have an EZ Steer connected from an Alpha I outdrive to a yamaha 9.9 kicker. When turning left the kicker is barely angles and with alittle bit of a wind won't turn the boat. Turning right the kicker turns just fine. When back at the dock I turned wheel to the left and noticed the tube compressed. If I detach the easy steer I'm able to push the kicker in either direction

 

Any input would be appreciated

[sherman brown]

you need to adjust the ez steer connecting arm to shorten the travel to the right an adjust to get more travel to the left.

[antney1]

how & what needs to be done ?

[fisherdude]

You said the arm is collapsing while you're turning left so you need to tighten the EZ steer arm up a tad .put your I/O lower unit down in the drive position and in the straight position set your kicker in the drive position . adjust the kicker so in straight position with the arm attached to the i/o lower unit. On the EZ steer arm there is two pins and they have screws on the end of them need to tweak each one a little bit. Don't over tighten the pins you still want the easy steer arm to be able to move.

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[Sk8man]

Good advice. The tension of the arm is factory set so as Brian said it still needs to be able to slide if necessary with the tension set.