The 127 is different then the 125. The 127 uses a few belleville washers and friction disks. When I was having a problem with my hyro lever being to stiff i soaked it with some WD40 but this made it too lose and it would just flop around. I ended up taking out the whole control linkage out of the tower and tearing it down and freeing it all up. But if the handle isnt to hard to move I would look at the neutral linkage on the hydro. my