Wiring in steering wheel post

[sr102948]

Installing a Garmin GPS on my 78 Hunter. Very little room to run cables and wiring up the steering post to the monitor? The PO ran the older system wiring right up next to the wheel drive chain, that can't be right? Seems like it could short out very easily. How is this done? Do I take the steel plate off the bottom of the steering post and cut a hole in it for cables and wiring? Or am I worried about nothing here?
Tks
Steve Rainey

 

[J Page]

pedestal guard

I ran mine down the S.S. pedestal guard after I cut a hole for the cable. That way they weren't anywhere near the cables.

Lugeman

 

[sr102948]

pedistal steering wiring

SS pedistal guard? Sounds like you cut a hole in the deck and ran the cable up the pedistal right?

 

[Ed Schenck]

I have both. An older Garmin cable was already in the pedestal. I ran the wiring for my Nexus instruments and my Simrad steerer inside the pedestal. There were already holes in the base plate that were not next to the cable exits. When I added a chartplotter I ran that wire down the pedestal guard tube. And yes, I drilled a hole through the center of that little foot that the guard tube sits in. I filled that foot with silicon caulk before securing the guard.

 

[sandpiper10471]

Mine too - the instruments wiring runs inside the pedestal guard. My wheel pilot I ran externally and cable tied it to the guard post. Relatively unobtrusive but internal would have been neater.