Ok - so some good news. I got up this morning and started poking around everywhere with the test light and noticed I didn't have power coming to the "electrical panel" (not sure what it's really called). There is a wire that comes from the main connection (where the starter wire comes off) that feeds this panel and it has an inline fuse that was blown. I assume that when the old motor died it drew enough current trying to run that it popped. That problem is fixed and the trim motor hums right along.
Now on to the next issue...
I got everything wired up and put back together with tef-gel and started filling with ATF. I got enough in there to make the piston start moving to line it up and get the big pin back in place (thanks again interalien). So I've read to run the motor all the way up (with help of course) and all the way down to purge the air. Then refill and repeat. It's definitely getting better and will hold the motor at pretty much any position and go down just fine. When I try to go back up it starts to go up a little but I have to manually lift it most all the way. I have cycled it like this 2 or 3 times then tried to add more fluid but it's not taking much more and isn't getting any better in operation. When the motor is almost all the way down the sound changes pretty substantially and sounds like it's starving for fluid. I'm guessing this is part of the self bleeding?
My only thought at this point is the whole assembly is angled too far back to get it completely full? Does this sound like it's still low on fluid?
I've got the trailer jack all the way down in the front but the trim assembly still has a definite lean towards the back (if that makes sense). I think I'm going to use a floor jack and fold the trailer jack up to try and get it even lower in the front. Other than that I guess I need to find some ramps to back the trailer onto if I need to get even lower up front.
Thanks
