Dometic Baystar Hydraulic Steering Kit, HK4200A-3

This took me about 2 hours to install. It was the first time I ever tackled a project like this. My old steering cable was locked up from dried grease. I called boating places and the cost to replace the cable because they had to take the motor off to do it was over the $500.00 So I decided I should upgrade to hydraulic steering and do it myself for around the same price of replacing the cable. After I ordered this I download the instruction manual and read it twice. By time it arrived I was ready to install. I dropped the old helm down from the console and cut the cable with a cut off wheel then taped a rope to it so When I pulled it out I had something to pull the new lines back through. Then I went to the back of the boat and cut the cable next to the engine. The old cable pulled out very easy, I then rigged up the hydraulics on the motor and put all bolts finger tight for now. I taped my new hoses on the rope and pulled it back through with one shot. Connected all the fittings for the helm and then bolted it down. Went to the back connected the fittings and tightened all bolts. Filled with fluid and bled the lines. It works absolutely perfect. I can not be happier with the outcome. Note I did have to cut off the dog ears on the motor so it would tilt all the way up. I missed that during the install but was able to take it off and cut them out in about 5 minutes or so. Now it tilts all the way up like it is suppose to.

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Easy to install.. works aswome on on my 75HP.

Just bought the baystar kit for my 2007 Yamaha 115 to replace the cable steering. Install and bleeding was really easy if you follow their instructions. Ive been out a couple times since I installed it and hydraulic steering with the baystar is the way to go!! Would recommend this unit to anyone struggling with cable steering. I link my 115 to a 9.9 when trolling for salmon and I don't notice the extra weight of the kicker at all.

This kit had everything I needed and the instructions it came with plus looking at some youtube videos from people made easy to install. It's definitely a two person job to bleed the air out. The neck of the steering wheel is probably good 4 inches so it was sticking out a lot for my helm so I bought a bracket adapter that enables you to mount the neck coming out from inside the helm instead of going on top of the helm and that made it shorter like by an inch and a half (that's the square thing at the bottom of the neck in my picture), still sticks out some but not as much and it only bothers me when I'm standing steering the boat. I definitely noticed the change from going from cable steering and I don't get any feedback and it doesn't get as hard to steer when going fast as the cable one used to do, I have a 17ft Key West 1720 boat with a 90HP engine, I had to cut the old cable steering cable out of the engine since in this boat model you have to unmount the engine to get it out since the motor end of the cable steering is solid metal that doesn't bend at all and there is no room to pull it out straight. Overall very happy with it, one recommendation I have is download the PDF of the install and print the mounting holes diagram to check in your boat's helm, my friend found out he had too many holes from the old steering and there was no good fiberglass spots left and he had to fix the whole area first before mounting the new hydraulic steering.