I have learned a lot from many of you out there and I hope that you can help me with my latest problem. The amount of knowledge on this board is unbelievable.
I recently picked up a 1975 Johnson 115 model number 115ESL75E that was not running and had had the tilt and trim removed from the motor. The prior owner had sold the boat trailer and I grabbed the motor and the controls that were there before the boat and trailer were towed away. These did not include the tilt trim motor controls. I got the motor started/running without to much trouble and I will rebuild the carbs and put in a new water pump kit over the winter and see just how well I can get it to run.
I had the tilt trim motor (prestolite) repaired at an electrical shop and it now works again, but I just have the three wires comming out of the motor to work with. I have a clymers manual and read that one cylinder is for trim and the other for tilt. Is this right?
I have the motor mounted on a stand right now and I can not hook up the tilt trim because one of the stands legs is in the way. I can add 12V to the black and blue wires and one cylinder will extend fully but the other just a few inches. If I then use the black and red wires the same cylinder that will extend fully will also retract fully, but the other one will not. Is this normal? Would the weight of the engine simply push this cylinder back in as it came down? There is also a wire that goes into the back of that cylinder. Does anyone know what that wire is for? Right now it has been cut and is just hanging.
Lastly what do I need to make this work on my boat. I noticed that the factory harness is much more complex than just using a switch to run the motor in different directions, but would anything be damaged just supplying 12V to either the red or the blue wires as long as they were not held down once the upper and lower limits were reached? I would like to tie it into my rocker switch on my current controls if possible and raise and lower the engine from the console. Sorry for the long post.
Thanks for any thought or suggestions.
I recently picked up a 1975 Johnson 115 model number 115ESL75E that was not running and had had the tilt and trim removed from the motor. The prior owner had sold the boat trailer and I grabbed the motor and the controls that were there before the boat and trailer were towed away. These did not include the tilt trim motor controls. I got the motor started/running without to much trouble and I will rebuild the carbs and put in a new water pump kit over the winter and see just how well I can get it to run.
I had the tilt trim motor (prestolite) repaired at an electrical shop and it now works again, but I just have the three wires comming out of the motor to work with. I have a clymers manual and read that one cylinder is for trim and the other for tilt. Is this right?
I have the motor mounted on a stand right now and I can not hook up the tilt trim because one of the stands legs is in the way. I can add 12V to the black and blue wires and one cylinder will extend fully but the other just a few inches. If I then use the black and red wires the same cylinder that will extend fully will also retract fully, but the other one will not. Is this normal? Would the weight of the engine simply push this cylinder back in as it came down? There is also a wire that goes into the back of that cylinder. Does anyone know what that wire is for? Right now it has been cut and is just hanging.
Lastly what do I need to make this work on my boat. I noticed that the factory harness is much more complex than just using a switch to run the motor in different directions, but would anything be damaged just supplying 12V to either the red or the blue wires as long as they were not held down once the upper and lower limits were reached? I would like to tie it into my rocker switch on my current controls if possible and raise and lower the engine from the console. Sorry for the long post.
Thanks for any thought or suggestions.
