Help Please!!!

[Josh256v]

I'm still battling trim motor issues!! I'll explain my perdicament again. I went outside one afternoon after a rain to see that my motor was raised all the way up. I attempted to lower it and had no success! I just put on 2 new relays. When I hit the switch to lower it clicks the relay and tht is all. When I click the up button it makes no noise. When I touch the up wire to the battery bypassing the switch, but still thru the relay it just sparks and wants to catch on fire. I've yet to jump straight from the trim motor to the battery b/c I don't know where the wire comes out behind the relay. Is my trim motor shot?? Or does anyone have anymore suggestions for me before I take it to a mechanic???

I have a 1988 Stratos 256v w/ 1988 Evinrude 70hp VRO (vro is disconnected).

[SEAHORSE]

Trace the heavy blue and green trim motor wires from the relays until you find the black connector where they tie into the trim motor harness. Remove the connector and check the pins and sockets for corrosion. Most intermittent problems are there.

You can test the trim motor by removing the connector piece and using small jumper wire on each terminal of a battery. This is if there are only 2 wires going to the trim motor.

IF you have 3 wires, use the blue on the positive and the black (ground) to raise the motor and green on positive and black to lower it.

the rain making the trim activate is usually a short in one of the switches, most often the one in the bow. You have to trace and check each one to make sure.


Good luck

[nxs454]

Ditto on the bow switch. Had to replace one last spring on on my 95 379 Javelin w/Johnson 150. Came outside one day and the trim was all the way up and the trim motor was smokin. Disconnected the battery cable and reconnected and all was fine so I trimmed the motor back down and thought maybe a relay stuck or some other oddball stuff had happened. Messed around a couple of hours in the yard and low and behold heard it running again behind me. Got out the meter and started checking and found the bow trim switch had gone bad probably from stepping on it getting in and out of the boat over the years.

[89basscat]

i agree with both these guys on what they say. i actually took the black connectors inside the motor where your green/blue wires connect and cut the connectors off and put uninsulated butt connectors there and crimped them and put heat shrink with adhesive over them...ust remember that you need to put the heatshrink over before you make the connections :)

Jim

[Josh256v]

Update:

Tonight I installed my new rectifier, which really made a huge diff. in how the motor ran. Anyways, I decided to mess with the trim some more. The trim motor works! It is not bad, and we got the motor to raise up and down. Hooked it back up to the switches and all I have is "down" on the throttle switch and bow switch(new)...The relay for "up" won't even click. All that's holding me back now is getting the motor to trim up then I'll be in business? What to try now??