Captain Crisp
Active member
Hi my much-loved Suzuki 2.2 has started leaking grease from the where the shafts sits in the clamp.
Does anyone know what I should do?
Thanks,
Crisp
Does anyone know what I should do?
Thanks,
Crisp
Suzuki 2.2 leaking grease...
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VicS
Well-known member
Nothing.
It is just the grease you inject into the steering swivel beginning to leak out. Perhaps the bushes are beginning to wear.
Captain Crisp
Active member
Thanks... It's really getting very greasy down the shaft which makes moving it around a mucky business... I'll take the swivel apart over winter and have a look...
Beneteau381
Well-known member
Just wipe the excess off. It’s a nothing
Captain Crisp
Active member
Tell that to my dry-cleaner.
Rappey
Well-known member
Often on small outboards there is just two halfs of a plastic collar between the outboard leg and the clamp. From my personal experience Its not really something you need to keep greasing as they rarely get tight or seize and is so easy to take apart ,clean, lightly grease and reassemble if it does get stiff.
When you take out the 4 bolts the engine may fall out of its clamp..
When you take out the 4 bolts the engine may fall out of its clamp..
lustyd
Well-known member
having done this, you'll clean the grease off and then have to grease it on assembly. Spoiler alert...the new grease will leak out as well. Now I just wipe occasionally. I realise that won't change your plan, but hopefully you'll be less annoyed by the outcome
sawduster
Member
My experience of this wasn't that it was leaking unmolested existing grease but there was a tiny fuel leak that I hadn't noticed that was running down the shaft and dissolving the grease there. Worth checking over the rest of the engine to make sure there isn't anything leaking from above that could be making the grease run.