Steering Plate Pivot Pin Stuck

[Soup]

Anyone else have a steering plate pin that won’t budge! Bought a 2019 Limited S and the steering was impossibly tight. Turns out the pin and plate is the issue. Removed set screw and tried everything I could think of to pop it out and it won’t budge. Need ideas/help.
PS. Yamaha is 4 months out at service stations.

 

[AZMark]

Anyone else have a steering plate pin that won’t budge! Bought a 2019 Limited S and the steering was impossibly tight. Turns out the pin and plate is the issue. Removed set screw and tried everything I could think of to pop it out and it won’t budge. Need ideas/help.
PS. Yamaha is 4 months out at service stations.

What plate and pin are you talking about?
My steering tightened up badly on a boat with <50 hours and I can’t figure it out. I have the service manual and there’s hardly any information in there on steering.

 

[Hmiller99]

Any update on this? My 6 month old boat with 26 hours on it is having the same issue. The dealership ordering the new steering plate but it’s back ordered until end of March. Trying to figure out a way to at least get the boat driveable. I’ve used corrosion x, wd 40 etc and tried to work it loose with no luck.

 

[Jasonmartin1313]

So how did you end up getting it apart?