New Boater 1
Recruit
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2010
- Messages
- 2
I am 16 and I bought my first boat in June this last summer.
It is a 16' 1978 Avenger. I bought it for $400 and spent the whole summer rebuilding it. I redid all of the floors, hull foam, and fiberglassing all by myself. I also had to rebuild the engine which is a Black Max 1978, 150 Hp, v6, Mercury Outboard. I had to replace both switch boxes, the trigger, and stator. And rebuild the carburetors. I got it to run great! And I just got all the upholstery done last week.
Saying all this, Now i just cannot figure out the Tilt/trim. I have taken my boat out twice by putting a rope around the engine to keep it down while in reverse and manually lifting it to put it on the trailer. But, I really want to take it out this weekend with friends and my parents will not let me take it out by myself until the tilt/trim works correctly.
I took apart the original Hydraulic motor and found that it was bad and I had to buy a new one. So I went to the mercury shop and looked through his "boneyard" until I found the exact same motor that is on my boat. I tested it and it worked so I bought it. I then took it home hooked it up, and filled it with motor oil. I was told my model was self purging so I just kept pressing up then down, on and off for a while. I had to refill the reservoir several times. While I was doing this the motor did not move at all. I wanted to see if it would resist me lifting it manually and it did. It resisted lifting manually.
The motor does not go up or down at all when the hydraulic pump goes.
So I took off one of the hydraulic lines and watched the flow out of the pump while I pressed the button, the oil just kind of oozed out. But the motor runs stong.
How can I get the Hydraulic pump to move the motor up and down?
After a whole summer of work and lots of money put into this boat it is very annoying having this hold me up. I just want to get on the water this weekend.
I have also been having issues with one of the solenoids, is there a generic solenoid I can buy at an auto parts store?
It is a 16' 1978 Avenger. I bought it for $400 and spent the whole summer rebuilding it. I redid all of the floors, hull foam, and fiberglassing all by myself. I also had to rebuild the engine which is a Black Max 1978, 150 Hp, v6, Mercury Outboard. I had to replace both switch boxes, the trigger, and stator. And rebuild the carburetors. I got it to run great! And I just got all the upholstery done last week.
Saying all this, Now i just cannot figure out the Tilt/trim. I have taken my boat out twice by putting a rope around the engine to keep it down while in reverse and manually lifting it to put it on the trailer. But, I really want to take it out this weekend with friends and my parents will not let me take it out by myself until the tilt/trim works correctly.
I took apart the original Hydraulic motor and found that it was bad and I had to buy a new one. So I went to the mercury shop and looked through his "boneyard" until I found the exact same motor that is on my boat. I tested it and it worked so I bought it. I then took it home hooked it up, and filled it with motor oil. I was told my model was self purging so I just kept pressing up then down, on and off for a while. I had to refill the reservoir several times. While I was doing this the motor did not move at all. I wanted to see if it would resist me lifting it manually and it did. It resisted lifting manually.
The motor does not go up or down at all when the hydraulic pump goes.
So I took off one of the hydraulic lines and watched the flow out of the pump while I pressed the button, the oil just kind of oozed out. But the motor runs stong.
How can I get the Hydraulic pump to move the motor up and down?
After a whole summer of work and lots of money put into this boat it is very annoying having this hold me up. I just want to get on the water this weekend.
I have also been having issues with one of the solenoids, is there a generic solenoid I can buy at an auto parts store?