The news says Steve Columbos boat was pulling to the left at high speed.I'm sure the HTM boat had hydrolic steering.If the hydrolic pressure failed at high speed would the driver loose control of the outdrives steering or is there a fail safe built in.
Like I stated in my post in the topic about being safe or not, I had a valve in the steering system fail which cause the boat to turn hard right. I am running a single I/O though and I am not sure if there would have to be a failure by more than one valve in a twin to cause the same thing.
Dual ram hyd steering includes 2 rams, one on each side. On a twin engine setup, generally you still use the 2 rams and a tie bar, so it would be basically the same as a single engine. Just an FYI
Thanks for that clarification. On my twin o/b boat there were only 2 rams but I was not sure if twin i/o's were the same. I guess then if you had a valve failure as I did it could have caused the boat to hook and roll.
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