1979 Pierce-Arrow. Volvo 200D with a 280 drive.
I just picked up this boat last month and the previous owner bent the shaft on the lift unit. I picked up another unit and motor (tested out of the boat in both directions) and installed in the boat today. The unit works well going up.......nothing coming down.
P.S. This is the two wire unit.
I'll assume that the previous owner replaced the dash switc as there it no indicator light on the panel. The switch appears to be a dual load momentary switch (two positions on top of the switch and two positions on the bottom of the switch and hot in the center.
There are three wires from the lift unit relay going to the dash switch. Brown, Blue and Yellow/Blue. The dash switch has a purple wire coming in from the ignition to the hot terminal on the switch, the brown wire is plugged in at the top switch terminal, blue wire at the bottom switch terminal and the yellow/blue wire isn't attached to anything. To further confuse me, about a foot up from the relay back at the engine, he cut back the insulation on the wire bundle and cut the yellow/blue wire and crimped on a short piece of wire with a plug that isn't attached to anything either, it's just hanging there by the battery. So the yellow/blue going into the relay is cut. Not really sure what his goal was on this.
I can splice the yellow/blue where he cut it but i'm not really sure how to wire the dash switch. (Mechanical i'm ok, electrical I'm dangerous). I don't really need the indicator light as it's fairly easy to tell when the drive is down and locked in.
Any help from the sages would be appreciated.
Respectfully.
I just picked up this boat last month and the previous owner bent the shaft on the lift unit. I picked up another unit and motor (tested out of the boat in both directions) and installed in the boat today. The unit works well going up.......nothing coming down.
P.S. This is the two wire unit.
I'll assume that the previous owner replaced the dash switc as there it no indicator light on the panel. The switch appears to be a dual load momentary switch (two positions on top of the switch and two positions on the bottom of the switch and hot in the center.
There are three wires from the lift unit relay going to the dash switch. Brown, Blue and Yellow/Blue. The dash switch has a purple wire coming in from the ignition to the hot terminal on the switch, the brown wire is plugged in at the top switch terminal, blue wire at the bottom switch terminal and the yellow/blue wire isn't attached to anything. To further confuse me, about a foot up from the relay back at the engine, he cut back the insulation on the wire bundle and cut the yellow/blue wire and crimped on a short piece of wire with a plug that isn't attached to anything either, it's just hanging there by the battery. So the yellow/blue going into the relay is cut. Not really sure what his goal was on this.
I can splice the yellow/blue where he cut it but i'm not really sure how to wire the dash switch. (Mechanical i'm ok, electrical I'm dangerous). I don't really need the indicator light as it's fairly easy to tell when the drive is down and locked in.
Any help from the sages would be appreciated.
Respectfully.
