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I felt a skip in my steering today and since I have the time and expecting kids using the boat this weekend and beyond, I decided to replace the helm and cable on my 16'.

I have done this repair before, but it has been a while. I actually had the last helm that had come off the boat.
Teleflex safe-tee not the big -tee.

Went to a very large dealer of many boats and motor makes after calling to confirm the 'kit, helm and cable" in stock.

All good until I got it home.
It was packaged as a dual cable assembly. Called and was not able on the phone to determine if it was still usable. Drove back and tech opened another box like my kit. This was the same and when we both decided that "faulty boxing" was probably not the issue, we figured out the new helm is just another change to be aware of.

I spent a lot of time driving back and forth because no one at this very large dealership was even aware of this change.
All is well and hope I save a fellow whaler owner some time.