This little two-cylinder Evinrude had not been given any love in quite a long time. The steering was extremely stiff, so we broke out the heat gun and gently heated the entire area where the engine pivots. The idea behind the heat is to loosen up the old grease and corrosion and make an unobstructed path for the new grease to travel up inside the pivot. In this photo, I am holding pressure with the grease gun while heat is applied. I continued to force the new grease in until I got a nice flow of new grease out of the top. The result was a nice full range of steering.
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