Auxiliary tilt switch installation

[RLJ]

Hello all,<br /><br />I have a '99 Force 50hp and I would like to install a tilt switch on the motor. The switch I want to install has 5 connections (two blue, two green and one red). There is a blue and a green wire going to the tilt pump from the harness, so I'm thinking that's where my switch ties in but where do I plug in the red wire or is my thinking wrong to start with?<br /><br /><br />Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[roscoe]

Re: Auxiliary tilt switch installation

Welcome to iboats.<br /><br />Red wire is power fed into the switch.<br />When switched down, power is routed thru the green wire to the relay, then to the tilt motor.<br /><br />When switched up, the power is routed thru the blue wire to the other relay, then to the trim motor.<br /><br />Your blue and green wires coming out of the new switch, must connect to the existing blue and green wires coming from the existing switch, where they feed into the relays.

 

[RLJ]

Re: Auxiliary tilt switch installation

Roscoe, <br /><br />Thanks for the advice. There is no place to plug in the red wire, should I splice it to the red wire going into the tilt/trim relay?<br /><br />Thanks again.

 

[roscoe]

Re: Auxiliary tilt switch installation

Hmmm,?<br />Are you using the correct type of switch?<br />The switch needs to have 3 connections and needs to be a 2 position momentary switch.<br /><br />Red (power) into switch.<br />Push it up, and it connects to the blue wire.<br />push it down and it connects to the green wire.<br /><br />A waterproof one like this works well.<br /><br /><br /> http://www.iboats.com/mall/index.cg...switch&**********=461010147&*******=788332428

 

[RLJ]

Re: Auxiliary tilt switch installation

Roscoe,<br /><br />I'm going to use the Mercury switch (found it on Parts Express). I was hoping for a plug in for the hot wire but I guess I'll have to extend that wire to a power source. <br /><br />Have another question for you. There is a pigtail coming out of my control box with five male pins and a brown wire. Is this a tach connection and if so where can I buy one?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Bob

 

[roscoe]

Re: Auxiliary tilt switch installation

One of those pins is for the tach, I think it is the black wire on a '99. Holding the plug with the pins facing you, no pins on the bottom, pins at 9 o'clock, 11, 1, and 3. It should be the wire in the 3 o'clock position.<br /><br />If you go to a Merc dealer to get a tach, they will likely give you the harness that plugs into it and id the wire for you.

 

[RLJ]

Re: Auxiliary tilt switch installation

Thanks again Roscoe. By the way, I've enjoyed reading your posts on other topics.