Lubrication & General Maintenance

What your going to take it easy on HW and use lube, wow what is the world coming to.


inspect under the cap of the dist look for carbon tracks on the sides and top of the inside of the cap, if there is a lot of corrosion around the post for the wire terminals then replace it. Remove the rotor and look on the underside in the center where it makes contact with the center of the cap/coil lead and look for a burnt/stressed area in the plastic in the middle and if the edges of the rotor tip are rounded and not sharp it's time to replace it. Your's should have electronic advance and not mechanical so that really all you need to do on the ignition system.

try some marine grade wheel bearing ube for the rudder and some pennetrating spray to lube the cables, WD-40 PB blaster and the likes.

spray down the arrestor with carb cleaner and blow it out, and your good, might check a spark plug or two and see how they are holding up again look for rounded tips on the electrode sticking up from the ceramic insulator.

good man....

I like to never sieze the brass ends on throttle and tranny cables

munday

CQ...Try this, Hollywood will Love you for it!!

CQ,
I've got a zerk fitting on my rudder and all I've used on it since I've owned it is the standard grease that I had in my grease gun for lubing the suspension parts on my vehicles. It only took like half a pump every fall when I did the winterizing. Never had to touch it other than that.

As for the steering cable, I've heard that some guys lube it but there aren't any specific lube points on it. The only way that I would know of to lube it would be to completely disconnect it from the helm and the rudder, pull it a few out and put a little grease on it and then pull it back from the other end and do the same thing. Basically, you're only able to lube a couple feet on each end. I don't think that you can actually pull the cable all the way out of the sheath and then push it back through, but maybe somebody else knows for sure. Even if you could do that, it would be a friggin' mess and trying to keep the cable from hitting the ground and getting all kinds of crud on it would be a nightmare.
I had to replace my cable at someplace around 600HRs. I now have almost 1300HRS. and that cable is still doing just fine without ever touching it since I installed it. I've personally never lubed it at all. When the steering starts to get a little tight or have rough spots in between steering stops, it's time to replace it. Maybe others do something differently.


P.S. Wow, after previewing this post, HW is gonna have a filed day with it!!!! ROFLOL!!!!

Hollywood wrote: backfoot100 wrote: P.S. Wow, after previewing this post, HW is gonna have a filed day with it!!!! ROFLOL!!!! You guys are making it too easy lately. GottaSki and M3Fan underhanded a few last week as well. Yeah Chris, I'll be by on Saturday night for the lube and pump job. After that it should be cranking smooth.

I knew I definitely left some low hanging fruit with the shaft and male pilot questions.

Quinner, don't people who buy brand new loaded up boats just buy another new boat when it comes time to do any maintenance on them?