Hey everyone, this is my first post here. I appreciate any help... I picked up an '80 Crestliner Crusaider with a Mercruiser 470 a few days ago. I've been able to get the motor running good, etc. And am looking forward to getting it on the water.
I started working on the tilt/trim tonight. It didn't work when I bought it. I filled up the reservoir and was somewhat surprised when I hit the switch to go up, it came up just fine. When I tried to move it back down, it went down for while, but stopped. I could hear the motor slow down like it was down all the way, so I went back to check it out and saw that it didn't go down all the way. I ran it up and down a couple times to try to bleed any air out of the system to no avail. If I helped it by standing on it it would go down with the pump running, but not without.
I disconnected the rams at the aft to try to figure out what exactly was going on. Both cylinders go up (extend) just fine. Going down, both cylinders retract about half the way, but then one stops and once the other retracts all the way, the other starts pushing out, actually extending. They're both hooked up correctly, I verified that. I bled both cylinders and all the lines per the instruction manual (pain in the butt and cost me about $5 in fluid), but it still does the same thing. My guess is that I have a bad cylinder, but I though I'd check here first to see what everyone thinks. Also, just FYI, while troubleshooting, I switched the cylinders and the problem remained with the cylinder, regardless of which side it was connected to. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Nate
I started working on the tilt/trim tonight. It didn't work when I bought it. I filled up the reservoir and was somewhat surprised when I hit the switch to go up, it came up just fine. When I tried to move it back down, it went down for while, but stopped. I could hear the motor slow down like it was down all the way, so I went back to check it out and saw that it didn't go down all the way. I ran it up and down a couple times to try to bleed any air out of the system to no avail. If I helped it by standing on it it would go down with the pump running, but not without.
I disconnected the rams at the aft to try to figure out what exactly was going on. Both cylinders go up (extend) just fine. Going down, both cylinders retract about half the way, but then one stops and once the other retracts all the way, the other starts pushing out, actually extending. They're both hooked up correctly, I verified that. I bled both cylinders and all the lines per the instruction manual (pain in the butt and cost me about $5 in fluid), but it still does the same thing. My guess is that I have a bad cylinder, but I though I'd check here first to see what everyone thinks. Also, just FYI, while troubleshooting, I switched the cylinders and the problem remained with the cylinder, regardless of which side it was connected to. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Nate