steering is done

[Stillrunning]

Now that you move it pump alot of grease into the rod pushing out the older grease. Work it some more and it should get easier. Grease it up again pushing out more of the now older grease and this should do the trick. Keep it greased up real good and who knows you might get several more years out of it.

[bigshrimpin]

You've got to reem the tube out and get the old hard grease out of the tube. Pipe cleaner on the end of a electric drill will take care of problem in short order. You have to pull the steering cable to clean the inside of the tube.

[bcmarinamanager]

The steering cable is fine, the problem I was having was in the actual mount that the motor itself sits on. It has one zerk fitting. I disconnected the steering cable and I was having to use all my strength to push it from side to side. I started a regime of pumping grease in it, and spraying 656, and penetrating oil onto the upper part of the tube. The other day I broke out my new heat gun and started putting 1000 degrees of heat to it and pumping in more grease. The heat worked absolutely perfect! I can push it with one hand now in both directions with very little effort. It's good enough to go ahead and slap on a new helm that should get me through at least next season if not the next two. After that I'll just break down and go hydraulic, or (depending on $$$) maybe switch to an E-Tec!