PERIODIC MAINTENANCE Replacing Oil Refer to Filling With Lubricating Oil - SD20, SD50 and SD50-4T on page 19 . Using Yanmar Hand Pump (1) Fastest way: By using MerCruiser pump or simple market pump Refer to Preparing the Sail-Drive on page 42 . (1) 0005575 Figure 8 1 Plug 0005456 1. Use a MerCruiser ® pump like the one shown (Figure 8) or use a similar pump available locally. 2. Attach the pump to a new bottle of Quicksilver ® High Performance Gear Lube from MerCruiser ® . 3. Connect the hose with a hose clip to the adapter joint below the shift lever. 4. Remove the plug from the upper case cover (Figure 8, (1)) . 5. Operate the pump to fill the Sail-Drive with oil.
After bottle is empty, change the bottle while the pump and hose remain connected to the adapter joint. 6. After filling, first screw in and tighten the plug at the top cover (Figure 8, (1)) . Then remove the oil bottle, pump, hose and adapter joint and screw in the oil plug with a gasket. Figure 9 1 Plug 44 SD Operation Manual © 2009 Yanmar Marine International