Can Sea-Doos with O.P.A.S. steering be converted?
In May I decided to purchase a Sea doo 4 tec ltd to use as a demo for my steering in place of the OPAS, since then I have logged over 150 hours on this ski with the conversion to my steering. I drove the ski with the OPAS on it first and found that it worked but it seems to over steer at high speed and in chop it was really annoying as it seems to hold the ski back in chop. It was also hard to get it to steer in reverse. I feel that OPAS is better than nothing and it does work but it has a few draw backs. For the recreational skier it should be fine, it does seem to scrub a little off the top speed though. Doing the conversion to my steering was not simple due to all the hardware and holes Sea doo uses for the OPAS. After removing all the OPAS hardware, I built 4 block off plates from stainless steel and made gaskets to block off the holes in the hull. There are block off kits out on the market for that purpose as lots of people remove their OPAS steering. I also had to remove the larg
