Evinrude 150/200 tilt problem

[jasoncooperpcola]

A good friend just bought V6 Evinrude 150 with 200carbs. It lowers and trims down. But will not trim or tilt up. The electric trim motor does run. If we pull up the motor the trim rods will extend but will not push the motor. Its got fluid. What are we missing?

[Hedge]

Sounds like a short in the wire to the up switch or a bad switch

[jasoncooperpcola]

Its a 1986.

Hedge we are putting the motor wires to the battery. Ithas no black box yet..

[spareparts]

you said the motor does run when trimming up? Sounds like an internal oring gone bad, Make sure you have it full of fluid, you need to check it with the motor in the full up position, fill with a squirt can of light oil. If you know its full and wont trim up, there's an o-ring behind the large flat screw on the lower part of the trim system, there's one for up and one for down. One of those screws is on the rear facing side of the trim unit, the other one is on the transom side(you have to remove the engine or trim system). i can't remember which one is which

[nymack66]

Agreed could be lack of oil or system needs bleeding, try to assist it by physically lifting the the engine whilst someone trims it up to see if its just stuck valve etc .

Remove and clean the manual release valve, check for contamination of the oil, fill her back up to filler hole and test.

[bradford]

Bad solenoid?

[jasoncooperpcola]

This engine is a 200649S. Its supposed to have a single solenoid. Will it hurt to wire. It like the 80s with relays?

[nymack66]

Are you talking about a relay box that looks this? I since replaced mine with the CDI model as shown in the second picture ....

[jasoncooperpcola]

Yes we tried to use the old relay box. But this Outboard is a 1974 200. The relays would not push enough current to run the motor. The trim motor would barely spin. So now I am trying to figure how to make this dam thing work right. We might just run dual Mercury trim tilt solenoids.

[spareparts]

it all depends on if the trim motor is a two wire or three wire motor. If its a two wire, the ground is always constant and the up and down are set by the solenoids or relays. If it only has two wires, then the at rest position of the relays need to be to ground, when the relay is activated, it breaks ground before allowing the voltage to feed thru, the opposite relays is supplying ground to the motor while the activated relay supplies the power. You can use the small auto style "cube" relays if you get the correct ones