Trim pump wiring help

Bartone1965

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I have a question. Not sure what I’m doing to post on here so I hope I don’t mess anything up or upset anyone. I’m old lol. I recently got a 1985 mercury 50 two-stroke that has the old MerCruiser style trim pump that is mounted underneath the back of my boat now. Restored the boat rewired everything. Everything worked. Perfect. I had engine only on switch one on two. I had all my house electronics, and now that I wired the trim pump no matter if the battery often on switches on one or two I have everything. I don’t know where I went wrong. The trim pump has its own positive and negative which I put on the starting battery. And I did put a up-and-down switch on the back to trim the motor up. Also if I was standing at the back of the boat. It has its own positive which is going to the positive on the starting battery. And then up and down, which is where the green and blue wires are so what I done Was took the blue and green from the motor where the harness plugs into the motor down and run my blue wire and green wire from the switch and hook those together and then out of those into the blue and green wire on the trim pump.
 

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I'm having a hard time understanding just how you have it wired

Mercury trim wiring OB.jpg
 

Chris1956

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Bartone, If I understood correctly, you have the older "pump/reservoir in the boat" style PTT system. Those systems have one or two solenoids. They often have a trim limit switch as well. Here is a pic of how the wiring came from the factory, on a one solenoid system. If you have two solenoids, the second one will be on the down circuit.

Your PTT switch needs to be a single pole, double throw, with battery power in the center, the blue wire on the top and green wire on the bottom. Push the PTT switch up connects the blue wire to the power to run the PTT pump up. Ditto for down.

It is likely the trim limit switch is broken by now, so if she will not trim up, you will need to remove the trim limit switch and connect the wires that went to it, with a short jumper wire.
 

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