Just add the check to your routine end of season or start of season maintenance. While you are working in that area, you should grease the zerk fittings on the major bushing rotation areas. There iare one or two fittings on the casting that holds the shaft that the motor turns on ( as opposed to the shaft that the motor lifts and drops on which also has fittings). That grease fitting may be not so obvious especially if covered in grease. If that shaft gets gummed up the motor will be harder to very difficult to steer.
