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Also in the operating section, the manual mentions to grease the intermediate housing at 10 hours. Search for threads on it since there are lots of discussions. I had my dealer do the 10 hour and they greased them on my 212s.
It does not mention it in the service section. It's located on page 169 of the 2020 212 manual.
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It's the same. Not sure why they use different terms in the same manual. They always called it the intermediate housing in my jetski manual.
My dealer told me to just do everything at 20 hours and replace the oil filter (weird the 10 hour service doesn't call for replacing the filter) as well since I couldn't do it at 10.
I definitely think some dealers are not knowledgeable. My dealer has been around for a long time, have sold Yamaha since they started making them, and are highly respected. I have no reason to doubt them.
The manual doesn't call for it, but mine were changed at the 10hr service when they did the oil change. I won't change them at the 50hr but will at the yearly or 100hr service. I'll also pump a few CC's of grease into the pump bearing.
You're welcome on the review. The first oil change is important to get the junk out after break-in, so we did it as soon as we could after the 10 hours. It was hard to leave her at the dealer for a week.
We don't load from the bow so it's not needed for us. Looks nice though. Definitely like having it on the walk-over areas. You can contact Will at JBP for an update on the colour. He's on these forums too.
We get compliments all the time - one woman said it was "pretty" and I had to correct her that it's "pretty mean". Forgot that boats are supposed to be ladies so calling her pretty is ok I guess! LOL And we've only seen one other Yamaha (SX230 I think) on the water around us so far. We did see a black and green (2018?) 212x last summer at the docks in Kingston, but nothing else so far. Seems Yamaha is more popular further north with the 19' models on lots of smaller lakes. Maybe we'll see more next year as a lot of boats didn't even hit the water this summer due to the COVID restrictions.
Same for the 1000 islands area from Kingston to Gananoque, lots of cruisers and high performance Fountains, Bajas, MTI's, etc. No poker runs this year either sadly.
Yup, winter is coming...but I think we can get a couple more weekends of pleasant enough weather to get out on the water before we have to put her to bed...I hope.
That's a good name...and suitable since it's a jetboat!
What dealer did you go through to get your 2021 212s. I have been calling my dealer about getting one and they still didn't have any.
I went through Surdyke Yamaha in Osage Beach, Lake of the Ozarks. Ask for Mason or Jonathan.
Don’t know if you already got this fixed but I had the same issue on my 212.House battery wasn’t charging because the small black wire from the DSVR was never hooked up to the negative terminal of the battery. It was coiled up inside one of the gray switch covers. I love our 2017 212 Limited S. I’ve don’t quiet a bit to ours to make it work for us. Raw water wash down hose for the dogs and sand, hard plumbing an air pump with to the clean out tray for tubes, underwater lighting, docking lights, wetsounds sound bar + subwoofer + mid cabin speakers (We don’t even listen to music too loud but having a more full sound allows you to hear without increasing volume), hydrophase ride steady, Rokkwires less charger mount at the helm and rokk best wireless charger port side, additional courtesy lights..... I’m sure there is more. I have quite the list of spring projects once the weather breaks. We are replacing the snap in marine mat with seadek so I’ll offer those pads up on here if other 212 owners might need one. I believe I have figured out a way for me to add to the connext screen for bottoms my model didn’t come with ie docking lights, tower lights, shower that newer models might have in their connexts. Sorry for rambling haha!
