My Refurbishment of my TABS 435 Territory

[Angryant]

I recently purchased a 435 plate ally TABS open tiller steer. It has 4mm bottom and 3mm sides unlike the current TABS:
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It has had a bit of a hard time and was not in the best condition:
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So far I have done the following:

Replaced bilge pump and live bait well pump;
Installed a side console unit;
Sold the 40hp Merc tiller ster and replaced it with a 60hp Suzuki Bigfoot;
Replaced the carpet on the floor (cast deck to be done);
New steering system;
Bimini (first thing I did);
Got it repainted (2 pack);
Replaced electronics and got a multi-function gauge for the Suzi.

So far it looks good and performs well (punches above its weight in the chop).
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Now to get the motor run in and fine tune height and the prop.............

[sowden1942]

What was the cost to go from tiller to side console without the motor I already have a 40hp four stroke. Thinking of doing the same to a 4.5 Brooker Safari. John

[astro66]

did my brooker sowden....cost me about 500$ for the control box/cables/steering/conversion for the motor (which isnt much more then a bracket to hold the cables at the motor and a few plugs )....it helps if you have a tohatsu merc ...cheeper to buy the tohatsu version then the merc stuff...built my own console...
pretty much was unbolt steering arm...bolt up cable bracket...swap the gear change shaft to a shorter one(dont even really need to do that one but was in the kit) move the electric start/kill switch buttons to the control box ...mount the control box ....mount the steering and you are done ....
i couldnt go back to tiller steer ......

[Angryant]

What was the cost to go from tiller to side console without the motor I already have a 40hp four stroke. Thinking of doing the same to a 4.5 Brooker Safari. John

You can get planetary steering systems (excluding steering wheel) for around $230 and side console units on eBay for around $350ish. I purchased a TABS console only because I wanted to keep everything genuine.

I agree Astro, couldn't have another tiller steer.