I have found a small leak on my steering tube on my 12JC.  When in the water, a drop comes out where the cable goes in to the tube by the threads.  I recently replaced the cable, and I was wondering if there was something special I was supposed to do to seal this off?

Small leaks, drips, I wouldn't worry in the least about. They take water on from everywhere. Weep holes in the headers, shorty headers not quite over the transom, even SHOULD be dripping some water from the packing in the front of the jet pump. That's what the bilge pump is for. It's gonna take on water from most all of these sources, let alone any other reasons.

What GT said may take care of it, but remember 2 things. If you tighten up things completely water tight on that, steering the thing is gonna be a byatch! A boot, I dunno, would seem to me a place to hold water, then rot everything out quicker, cables and such.

Ray

Well I do have Rewarders with the weep holes, I just don't like looking back and seeing the drip from the steering tube.  I will look at those links and see if I can come up with a solution