My wife has and older Phazer (mid '90's) and the steering on it gets extremely stiff when left outside over night. It's stiff enought that it feels like if I force it, I'm going to break something. If we cover it up and apply heat, it loosens everything back up, so I'm assuming water is getting somewhere it's not supposed to and freezing up. I have no Yamaha experience, so I don't know of any common failures that I can start from to make it easier to figure out. Does anyone have any ideas? I don't see where there are any grease zerts to lube anything to force water out, am I just missing them?
