Stearing failure.
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SpringVelocity
Crew Member
I did not all stainless comes from china. Right now the best steel in my opinion is nippen steel in Japan. Or else north American.
Vevor probably uses China Steel Corp which sucks of its made there. Taiwan stuff is better. Some of that stuff is recycled so ****** quality.
Clint r
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How’s this working out?
ship happens
Crew Member
Lots of nice stuff comes from China. Lots of junk too. They will sell manufacture companies whatever you want. It's all based on price. Want real cheap cheap, you get cheap cheap. I always get the BBQ pork. Can't go wrong
Springking
Member
I recently purchased the Vevor 300hp hydraulic steering kit aswell. Took 1.5 days to ship to my door. Install was very straight forward. Installed it on my mercury 225 and so far no complaints.
Newf
Crew Member
The end of my steering cable will go into this support and will not be visible or accessible once installed. Should I apply some sort of grease to the end of the steering cable to have some lubrication when moving back and forth inside the tube? When I pulled the old one out it did not appear to be greased. End of cable is stainless and this tube on the one I removed was aluminum.
trophywife
Crew Member
based on friction and differential metals,, i say grease her up! lithium...
Newf
Crew Member
Thanks. I've been doing some online reading on it and some say that over time grease will "gum-up" and make the steering stiff. A couple did say to use lithium grease so I think I will pick some up and give it a good coat. The tube has a cap with o-ring so with it being mounted under the floor there should not be any crap getting on the rod in this location and pulled back into the tube.
Thanks again.
Rain City
Crew Member
My baystar (I think) system just seized up after 4 years. It actually just failed completely the other day. I'll be asking about lube this time.
Tomfoolery
Active Member
Just saw this thread now. I built last year and went default SeaStar because that is what I know. My builder installed Vevor in the next boat he built which was the same as mine because the client wanted to save money. He said it looked almost identical to the Seastar in terms of design and that even the seals looked interchangeable all at about a third the cost. So it will be interesting to see how your system holds up over time. I am not sure Vevor is as bad as people like to make out it is
brutus
Well-Known Member
It’s all built in china, the brand is we pay for, example the American icon Harley Davidson, bought part for my heritage few years back, on the back of the package (MADE IN CHINA)
Tomfoolery
Active Member
Yeah, true enough. I suspect maybe in this case the Seastar patents ran out so Vevor just duplicated the Seastar system. Pretty common tactic once the twenty years of protection is up.
SpringVelocity
Crew Member
Yeah that's actually not true right now.
In the design world we believe Vevor was most likely a contract manufacturer at one point. Pretty common.
The trend lately is some companies in North America is pulling business away from China contract manufacturers elsewhere. Some have moved back operations to North America. This company may have just ripped off designs it most likely made for it's clients.
I won't ever buy Vevor stuff as I don't support companies infringing on patents. It's a bad business practice, and lazy engineering.
Vevor has tons of lawsuits in patent infringement in play right now so I question if this company will be around in long term.
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brutus
Well-Known Member
Do you
Do buy Amundson gear ??? Same s… different gear
SpringVelocity
Crew Member
Not really. Each to their own.
Made in china yes.. but BC based company that's responsive to the locals. They know if they make a **** product they wont stay around long. Vevor is a low margin high throughput business.. I've got some of their tools and they work well enough within their limits.. but I would not trust my life to them. Losing steering on a nasty day could cost you your boat/ your life / or both.
saddlemaker
Member
So far the Vevor steering has been performing great. We are 1 year in now. I ordered a set of seals so I have them if I need them. I had the engine off this winter to install a hull extention so had to re bleed the system and it worked out fine.
