Power trim problems

Gday,

I've just uncovered the boat so I can finally get it back in the water and are having power trim problems!

First of all I pushed the power trim down switch and it made the normal noise, but nothing happened......
I tried the manual override and it still wouldn't lower.....
I cracked a couple of hydraulic hoses to get it down a bit and it started working again....so I thought....when I tried to raise it up again ,nothing? Not a sound.
It will lift using the motor raise/stow switch but not the trim switch? And once I lift it all the way to the top I cant lower it again!!!!!!

Its an old dual ram set up on a blueband 115 Mercury which I think is early 1980's with the pump/motor mounted in the boat.

I was heading in the "raise" relay (blue wire) direction, but what would stop it coming down after lifting it all the way up?

Ill try and post a couple of photos and find some better info on age and type ect............
Any ideas or direction to diagrams would be appreciated.

Cheers
Hairy


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Date Joined: 26/12/09

All fixed......there is a

Mon, 2015-12-28 19:34

All fixed......there is a limit switch on the side of the motor that stops you trimming the motor too high, which was faulty. Basically it was telling me the motor was already too high because it wasn't working.

Thanks anyway.

Cheers