Evinrude tilt question

[allinmygarage]

Ok I debated if the question should go in the electrical or evinrude section so I apologize if it should go somewhere else.

I just purchased an 1984 40hp Evinrude with Trim/Tilt. They marina lost the controls that went with it so gave me all brand new controls. The three wires coming from the tilt pump are "blue with white stripe", "green with white stripe" and "black". The plug coming from the new controls have "solid red", "solid blue", and "solid green". I hooked up the green to green with white strip, blue to blue with white stripe and black to red. Nothing works. I made sure the key was in the on position.

I guess I have a 2 part question. 1 - Is that how it should be hooked up? 2- Is there a way with just the battery and the three wires coming from the pump to test and make sure the pump works? e.g. could I wire it to a battery somehow.

Thanks in advance everyone.

-Matt

 

[allinmygarage]

Re: Evinrude tilt question

Ok upon thinking about this even more does the black from the pump go to battery ground? Then the Blue with stripe goes to the blue from control box and the green with stripe goes to green from control box? If that is the case where does the red from the controls go? It should get power from the main plug I am assuming. Or should that go to the battery?

 

[archcycle]

Re: Evinrude tilt question

The black from the 3 wire is a ground. Blue is your up, green is your down. I'm willing to bet the red is not a ground.

in my non-professional opinion is it possible they gave you a 2 wire control system (2 wires just blue and green coming from the pump) and you have a 3 wire pump? The 2 wire is a relay activated system which I would reason would need to be fed a hot and then have one of the relays switched on by the blue or green. Again in my non-professional opinion the 3 wire I believe were solenoid activated hence the ground to go directly back to the solenoids as opposed to being able to use the common ground of being bolted to the midsection.

 

[nphilbro]

Re: Evinrude tilt question

I just posted to a more recent thread on this... let me know if that helps. These suckers can be tricky.