rickasbury
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2011
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So...hopefully coming to the end of my engine re install...which is in and everything seems to power up, started motor but have a leak in my steering cooler which is a whole other thread....so last things on my list are to fix the cooler and get the trim rams hooked back up and put the props on . Then I'm in the water after two years!
So out drive went back on very easily after wrestling with the engine alignment. Absolutely slide right on, did not even need to rotate the out drive to agling the splines. If I did not know better, I'd say I missed the coupler, it went on so easy!
So, trim cylinders...when I took the drive off I was trimmed up a little. Going back on the rams seem to not be at the same length anymore so I needed to firm up the trim- have one ram installed partially and thought it would be a simple hit of the switch and then them close, one with weight on it and one without..anyway not the point. The trim does not operate, it worked fine before. So, thinking maybe the limit switch was not is a good position I made sure the marks were aligned and on the position sensor also. Zip. I checked with my multimeter the power and ground at the pump- 13V so I'm good at least there. Since I have power there, does that rule out the switch at the helm? So, any suggestions? I was going to jump the solenoid to see if the pump would run, just not sure what that will tell me and do not want to do that without careful instruction. Don't need to burn up a pump and my electrical is very limited at best!
Also, looking around....see this one wire not hooked up to anything, don't see anywhere to plug it in...also, notice on my plug wires a plug in with nothing pluged into it, assume it is for something else. I really did not take any thing loose on the motor it self when I pulled it.....you know, other than the out drive fluid line and minor things like that...
So out drive went back on very easily after wrestling with the engine alignment. Absolutely slide right on, did not even need to rotate the out drive to agling the splines. If I did not know better, I'd say I missed the coupler, it went on so easy!
So, trim cylinders...when I took the drive off I was trimmed up a little. Going back on the rams seem to not be at the same length anymore so I needed to firm up the trim- have one ram installed partially and thought it would be a simple hit of the switch and then them close, one with weight on it and one without..anyway not the point. The trim does not operate, it worked fine before. So, thinking maybe the limit switch was not is a good position I made sure the marks were aligned and on the position sensor also. Zip. I checked with my multimeter the power and ground at the pump- 13V so I'm good at least there. Since I have power there, does that rule out the switch at the helm? So, any suggestions? I was going to jump the solenoid to see if the pump would run, just not sure what that will tell me and do not want to do that without careful instruction. Don't need to burn up a pump and my electrical is very limited at best!
Also, looking around....see this one wire not hooked up to anything, don't see anywhere to plug it in...also, notice on my plug wires a plug in with nothing pluged into it, assume it is for something else. I really did not take any thing loose on the motor it self when I pulled it.....you know, other than the out drive fluid line and minor things like that...