My limited knowledge rarely allows me to add anything to the forum, but I thought that I might share this for future reference:
While taking my boat out of the water, my "down" Trim/Tilt stopped working. Fortunately, the "up" worked fine and I got the boat home. I first checked that the pump worked in both directions and it did. Since my boat has a remote switch on the swim platform - and neither it nor the one on the throttle lever worked - I just knew that I had a bad "down" solenoid. Wrong!. After removing and cleaning the contacts on the "down" solenoid, it occurred to me that there must be a common connection for the throttle trim and the remote trim.
On the backside of the remote switch is where the common connections are. One wire had slipped off of its connector. Once I put the wire back on the terminal, everything worked as it should. Fortunately, this occurred to me before I went out and bought a replacement solenoid switch.
While taking my boat out of the water, my "down" Trim/Tilt stopped working. Fortunately, the "up" worked fine and I got the boat home. I first checked that the pump worked in both directions and it did. Since my boat has a remote switch on the swim platform - and neither it nor the one on the throttle lever worked - I just knew that I had a bad "down" solenoid. Wrong!. After removing and cleaning the contacts on the "down" solenoid, it occurred to me that there must be a common connection for the throttle trim and the remote trim.
On the backside of the remote switch is where the common connections are. One wire had slipped off of its connector. Once I put the wire back on the terminal, everything worked as it should. Fortunately, this occurred to me before I went out and bought a replacement solenoid switch.
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