cable steering

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When older motors on a '59 vintage Thompson are replaced with a newer, more efficient motor, is it the general practice to also replace the cable/pulley steering with a newer, single cable design steering? I'd like to maintain the character of the boat but need to replace the outboard.

[alan white]

Just my two cents, but the old style cable steering never gummed up and everything was out in the open. Then again, these newer cables are probably a lot less to maintain, being sealed completely (so no maintainence is done ever, hence the gumming up).
Being a maintainence freak, I would opt for the two cable system like the original. It worked for grandpa.

Alan