Okay, so this summer I pulled the motor out of my little Citation 250 to clean up and rebuild the body. While I had it out and had easy access I dropped the skis out by pulling the tie rod ends with the splines that all mesh together, while I had my skis off I painted them up and got my grease zerks on the bushings cleaned out so I can finally start regularly greasing the steering. After all the work to the body and suspension was done I threw the steering back together and dropped the motor in. In the process of putting it away for the rest of the summer I went to turn the skis with the handlebar, turn to the right you have full steering, turn to the left and the tips of the skis move maybe an inch then the handlebar pops over violently and that's all you get out of it. A little frustrated I realized something was lined up properly and decided to deal with it in the fall. So fall is here and I finally got back to the thing, crankcase was filled with gas anyways so I decided it would be a fine time to pull the motor to fix my steering and I can more easily drain the motor out while Im at it. I pulled it out yesterday and started working on the steering put the spline shafts together in a solid thirty different ways and adjusted the tie rods trying to get everything adjusted about a hundred different times. Decided to call it a night and tried again this morning, same thing still cant get it to work properly and Im getting rather frustrated. Basically what I am getting is I can get full steering in both directions but only with the handle bars cranked to the right so far I don't think I can ride it like that, if I get my handle bars straight with the ski tips I get the same full turn to the right but a couple inches to the left and the handle bars pop all at once and the skis don't move anymore. All the fiddling with the tie rod adjustments cant seem to get anything to work right, I am almost to the point of sticking it together with my handle bars tilted to the extreme right but I really don't think that will be enjoyable to ride at all. Two evenings of working on the hing and all Ive gotten done was new carbides on the skis and a lot of frustration with the steering. I have the online manual and it tells you how to adjust the tie rods but says nothing about resetting the steering if you have to remove the skis. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I can get pictures if needed to picture what is going on here and can also do my best to get a video of what is happening if that would help...
Please help me with steering on Citation 250
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