A friend asked last night how to remove "slack", the steering wheel has to much side to side movement. 

With Merc’s you can adjust the side to side movement by tightening the (1 1/8”) hex nuts where the cable steering goes thought the engine mount bracket.

Tom

@WRB it's a Johnson 

Single or dual cable?  Single cable, I haven't seen many of those you can adjust so the steering wheel doesn't have free play at the helm.  Some used to give you and adjustment on the helm, but it's been so many years since I've even seen a single cable, I wouldn't have a clue what they do now.  Dual cable is not a problem, you just adjust the housing where they attach to the motor.  I would first make sure it's the cable itself and not something else.  

I've seen a lot of them the motor mounts and cable connection points have a ton of movement. 

One other thing, make sure it is cable and not hydraulic.  I had a guy ask me one time if I could adjust his cables because he had a lot of free movement.  When I looked at it, told him that was not possible, but I could bleed his hydraulic steering system for him and probably take care of it.

 

Thank Y'all ?

 

Apparently I need to ask him more questions