Greasing the drive shafts - how in sam #ell?!

[Lee Wilke]

2017 Yamaha 212X New here, appreciate the good info.

Although I bought the boat new in 2017, I did not attempt to grease the bearing zerks until last night. Very disappointed in the Yamaha design to say the least. While the 24 foot boats seem to all have the easy access grease hoses leading to the bearing housings, the 2017 212X (at least mine) does not. Instead, for no other reason than what I can only assume is their lack of caring, you have to be a committed contortionist to get this done.

Decided to post this because I solved the issue differently than anyone else here. Instead of buying a 90 degree fitting for my flexible grease gun, and then trying to position my body in a way to be able to push it down hard enough to seat properly on the zerk without breaking something else....I decided to pull the electronics mounted on the black plastic frame just above the zerks by backing out the 4 attachment bolts....laying it aside, and drill access holes into the plastic just above the zerks. Worked like a charm and should be easier next time!

Is there any way that you can post a picture of what you described above please?

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

Don't grease it do a search on adding gear lube to them instead. one post of several https://jetboaters.net/threads/adding-grease-to-bearing-housing.24661/#post-413636

 

[Lee Wilke]

Don't grease it do a search on adding gear lube to them instead. one post of several https://jetboaters.net/threads/adding-grease-to-bearing-housing.24661/#post-413636

How do you know how much gear lube to put in?

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

when the bilge pump kicks on you went too far

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

or when the thing is full then suck back about half an ounce