Tilt Trim on 1989 Johnson 150 HP

havinfun

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Both up and down, control and motor side switches<br />work intermitten. When one quits both quit. Both relays click, one clicks when the control lever switch is pressed UP and the other when the motor side switch is pressed UP. I just bought this boat. The previous crook that owned it had problems and has just replaced the trim motor. It is just a two wire blue/green to the motor. The first time I put the boat in the water this happened but after a few minutes started working. Today it worked for a while but when I went to take it out of the water I couldn't raise it had to manual release it.I have switched the relays, have two baterries fully charged, tried both. I'm thinking ground connection but don't know. Help me please.
 

OBJ

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Re: Tilt Trim on 1989 Johnson 150 HP

Greg....don't sound like yer "havinfun".<br /><br />Intermittent can mean lose connections, dirty connections and the like. Start with the connections from the relay box and check and clean them all. Pull the relays from the sockets and make sure the stabs are clean. If it's connected, check it. Let us know it that helps.....thanks.
 

havinfun

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Re: Tilt Trim on 1989 Johnson 150 HP

One relay connector has a cosmoline looking crap in the female side, the other is farely clean.<br />Any suggestions to the best electrical cleaning agent? Also, I noticed that the blue and green wires are crossed blue to green at the connection just in front of the relay box. Is this normal? From what I have read in other posts, green is for down, but my control lever switch makes one relay click when pressing up, and the motor side switch makes the other relay click pressing up.
 

havinfun

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Re: Tilt Trim on 1989 Johnson 150 HP

over looked the most important part, THANK YOU for your time OBJ. My vaction started today and using our boat was the way we wanted to spend it.
 
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