Well I asked in the forums awhile back regarding the possible purchase of a TR176. Well I went ahead and pulled the trigger.

It it was my first time out operating my own boat from start to finish (I’ve operated others in the past so I had an idea what I was doing).

Everything was fine until the end of the day when I had no trim function from any of the buttons. Plus the motor was all the way down.

I ended up getting it on the trailer and pulled it as far as I could without damaging the skeg too much.

I could not get to the trim motor because the motor was so far down.

Ended up tapping the trim motor through a small hole in the mounting bracket and thankfully it came up.

Looks like I'm going to have to replace.

How easy is this? Any further advice?

2008 TR176 with original Mercury Optimax 115