Thanks for your reply Flusher, no tightening of the steering at all, I had a friend drive it for me and I noticed water was spraying around most of the circumference of the steering joint as arrowhead in the pic. Wasn’t sure if it was supposed to, thought it may be a relief for excess water that can’t pump through the jet, thought it was odd though as I’ve never seen it on a jet ski outlet but different configuration I thought. So am I to understand that there is a large o ring inside there ? Which may be no good and needs replacing? It’s an ex drag boat and from what I can gather the jet may not have been touched for as long as six seasons.