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| I was out fishing tonight and was on my way in to the landing and trimmed the motor up a bit as the lake had layed down and didn't need the bow down so far. Trim worked fine. Backed the rig down to load up and as I was loading I noticed the trim did not work at all. When I looked at it with a light both switches sounded like they were tripping some kind of reley that is in a two part black box in the engine compartment. I am assuming the removeable part of the black box is replaceable as it looks to be some type of capaciter, reley, solonoid ect. Can this part cause this problem or am I looking at replacing the ram/motor?? When I try the switches there is no noise or movemnt of the trim pack. I have not had any sort of issues with the ram/motor in the past, and would the ram and motor just quit without any warning?? Anyone have any suggestions or suspisions?? This is on a 1995 Mariner 50HP Tiller. Would a repair shop be able to tell me if the removable black box part is bad with just taking that to the shop, and them ohming it out?? |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | They are relays. One for up and one for down. A quick check-- remove relay, check for power @ pin 30 . If you have power, jump from 30 to 87(opposite side). This should operate ram. If you didn't have power @ 30, check for a blown fuse. Hope this helps. |
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Location: Rhinelander, WI | One thing you could try before you take anything apart is rap lightly on the trim motor as you are working the switch. When my trim motor went bad I limped it along this way until I got it to a shop. The brushes go bad in the motor and the raping may break them free. If the motor does work when you rap you will need to replace it.
Good Luck.
Nail A Pig!
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| Sounds like it may be the relay to me. I had a similar problem and that is what it was. And honestly, I think you can do this repair yourself without taking it in. They just un-plug and plug in and they are relatively inexpensive. What you can try is to switch one of the relays from the up side to the down side and see if that works. That way you can eliminate the ram as the problem and figure it is a bad relay. |
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