Re: Motor Pivet Locked Up HELP PLEASE!!!!!
The cable must be disconnected on the engine end (just to be specific). The cable runs tru a tube on the top of the transom mount.<br />This is where they usually sieze up.<br />Also the engine has a large hinge,that must be greased reqularly. When you have removed the cable from where it attaches to the motor, it should turn free. Sometimes, an engine that has sat for a couple years will sieze at the hinge,and you will have to work it back and forth,and little-by-little, it will eventually staert to free up.<br />Now, where the cable runs thru the tube, there is a nut on both ends of the tube.<br />Remove them,and see if you can get the cable's shaft out of the tube. Once you get it out, you can use a shotgun bor brush to clean the rust out of the tube. Check to make sure the helm steers ok,and if it does, re-install the cable shaft in the tube. Grease the two fittings on the tube, until it starts to come out of one side or the other or both,and re-intall the end nuts.