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Reged: 06/11/2005
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Loc: Mallorca / Leeds

Re: Volvo 290 Leg

13/05/2008 09:02

fwiw .. I found ...
swing the leg as you grease it, it helps to get it through. Also you'll have previously regularly done the steering head as well, accessed in engine room at top of transom internally - swing steering as well. Presume your on water type aqua grease ??
Found on mine that after a few years of non greasing by 'engineers' (ta vp agent) the grease inside the steering head went solid and plugged up the journels that carry the grease down into the moving bits causing wear to bushes and eventually the dribble of water internally ...

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Volvo 290 Leg	tontol	13/05/2008 08:35
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	tontol	14/05/2008 08:09
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	peanuts	13/05/2008 21:56
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	Sneddon	14/05/2008 07:13
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	tontol	13/05/2008 09:42
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	mont	13/05/2008 09:02
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	Chris_d	13/05/2008 09:28
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	Frontier	13/05/2008 19:53
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	Sneddon	13/05/2008 18:44
Re: Volvo 290 Leg	mont	13/05/2008 21:02

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