outdrive trouble

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deltabighat

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While putting my boat on my trailer at Paradise Point marina a couple weeks ago, I found the switch that activates the up on the outdrive did not work. It would go down, but not up and I couldn't put the boat on the trailer. I put the boat back in the water and fortunately a young man at the marina, Paul I believe, came to the rescue. He showed me a blue wire for up and a green wire for down, jumped the blue one or hotwired it, not sure, and the outdrive came right up. A couple days ago, like an idiot, I forgot about the switch and put the outdrive down and now I cannot get it up and cannot tow it to the shop with the drive down. I put this question in the tech section on the Bayliner Forum but still have no idea how he did this. The boat is a 1995 Trophy with a 5.7 engine and a Mercruiser Alpha One outdrive. Ideas??

DBH
 
I can't help you, but I'd post this on the "Engines. Electrical, etc". You will get a lot more views and guaranteed response.
 
Attached is my markup of my Yamaha 703 remote control schmatic, I have power trim and tilt. When I joined the remote schmatic with my outboard schmatic I marked up sky blue to tilt up and light green to tilt down. I am pretty sure your trim/tilt motor would be 12 volts so you want to give 12 volts from a jumper wite to sky blue, be careful you don't hit your jumper contact on anything that's grounded or it will spark and if there are fumes in the bilge that is not good. Getting to the jumper at the remote in the helm could be time consuming and tricky but if you jumper it in the bilge ventilate it well so if you do accidently get a spark you don't explode.
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Please post back that you have seen this so I can take down the image, it doesn't say its copyrighted but I am careful about posting intellectual property and don't want to leave the post online.
 
"it doesn't say its copyrighted but I am careful about posting intellectual property and don't want to leave the post online."

It is ok to copy and post copyrighted material online as long as you give credit to the owner of the intellectual property. You may have noticed whenever I copy into from Restore The Delta, I always use quotation marks and list their website as my source. Same with newspaper articles, etc.
 
Maybe I didn't make myself clear. To 'jump the tilt/trim, connect ANY heavy gauge red wire or straight from the batt if not from the solenoid on the tilt/trim pump...to the green or blue wire one is up and one is down. Connecting to the down when you want to go up won'r hurt anything as long as you don't keep it connected long.

To connect a remote up switch at the transom, just splice from the red wire and the up wire(gotta separate the harness some) and run it to a marine type pushbutton. If you seal it up good, you can mount it in the open.

If you want a remote UP/DOWN switch at the transom, use a self centering marine grade toggle switch.
 
Thanks Charlie,

So if I connect any larger guage wire to the positive on the battery to the blue up wire at the outdrive motor, the thing should come up.

DBH
 
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