Outboard 4 engine contender 40 footer miami wreck
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4 engine boat lost electrics then steering at speed i have asked and was told this could not happen i do not like the electric steering pump many mercs use at the end of the video it says 3 were throw out with serious injuries anyone know what happened?
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Fractured 5 vertebrae losing a power steering belt once. The engines drove hard starboard in a split second and threw me against the other side of the boat. Crazy.
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Cigarette 28ss 330hp 454's. Lost the belt at like 40mph coming into the river. Just cruising, no alcohol involved, actually headed to dinner. Starboard engine was not running when I got up. Bounced twice off the side. It went from straight ahead to full starboard in a blink of an eye. No it didnt have full hydraulic steering, just the standard merc on the inner transom, with a tie bar on the drives. Nothing was broken, just the belt off. Idled home on one engine.
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Standard merc system. Ripped out of my hand. Maybe it was an old system out of adjustment or something…. I know what happened.
New systems go into limp mode. Have a bud with nothing but problems on his cen console.
New systems go into limp mode. Have a bud with nothing but problems on his cen console.