Greasing my outdrive for the first time and I've seen a lot of threads on blown seals.

1. I removed bleeder screw.

2. Pumped in new grease.

3. Grease oozed out of bleeder screw hole and I removed grease gun.

Grease is STILL oozing out of bleeder hole (obviously still under pressure). When do you put bleeder screw back in??

I saw on TOS someone recommended running the motor in gear with bleeder screw out to let grease expand and have a place to go without blowing seals.

I'm also in MN and it's colder here right now, should I have run the motor first to allow for grease to flow?


Thanks

Its simple....remove sctew ....pump grease till all old grease is out and new grease starts to come out the stop. Put screw back in and walllla like brand new again.

You can blow the seal with a grease gun. I thought it'd be a good idea to pump a couple extra pumps to keep positive pressure in the shaft the first time I ever serviced mine with 10 hours on it...on the second pump I heard a fart sound and it was seeping out the seal by the wear sleeve. As long as the bleed screw is out you're fine.

You are over thinking a very easy thing .
1.take screw out
2. Pump grease in until you see the new grease
3. Put screw in

Do that and you will be fine . Do not pump grease in without screw being out you will be changing seals if you do that . You do not have to run motor in gear for 5 hours , not that critical to get all the grease out .. Just as long as you have 90% good grease I think that is plenty

Even if seal is blown it's only takes 20 min to change them out .. I'm by no means a mech or pretend to be one and I can change the seals out in that time

Interesting that GTR hasn't made the LU a little more user friendly by changing the seal configuration so u can't blow out the seals.

its real simple if you put grease every other trip out you will never have to change the grease thats what i do and the grease that comes oiut the hole looks new evry time so why change it.

ThAnks for clearing that up DDM.

not trying to thread jack but i just spent four days at the camp and picked up some grass in between the prop and the seal....the seal is basically ate up to nothing...easy fix? i'm no mechanic by no means, or a GTR rep..lol. and i hate working on shit.