"Ok this is a dumb question bu
"Ok this is a dumb question but I am doing something very wrong when boating. When I come near a shallow area I raise the drive and go in slowly, maybe 1500 RPM. So far this season I have bent a tilt rod and ripped two bellows. The bellows ripping is pretty scary because if it happened well the boat was in the water for a weekend the boat could sink if I didn't notice.
Should I not tilt the drive at all and just let it hit, I guess it is not locked up so it will just swing up... Is it ok to drive with the tilt up at idle speed? Or does this risk ripping the bellows as well, I would assume if the bellows rips at 2k RPM it should at any RPM.
Lastly, the indicator light does not work and I think I need to get that hooked up. The tilt works great. I had another unit here and switched the limit switch and it still isn't working... Maybe both of them had bad limit switches. If it was a bad switch would the tilt still work? The other unit I took the limit switch out of was a working unit with a 4 wire motor so i think that means the limit switch must work... My motor is just a two wire motor so I don't think it is smart enough to use the information from the limit switch."
"Ok this is a dumb question but I am doing something very wrong when boating. When I come near a shallow area I raise the drive and go in slowly, maybe 1500 RPM. So far this season I have bent a tilt rod and ripped two bellows. The bellows ripping is pretty scary because if it happened well the boat was in the water for a weekend the boat could sink if I didn't notice.
Should I not tilt the drive at all and just let it hit, I guess it is not locked up so it will just swing up... Is it ok to drive with the tilt up at idle speed? Or does this risk ripping the bellows as well, I would assume if the bellows rips at 2k RPM it should at any RPM.
Lastly, the indicator light does not work and I think I need to get that hooked up. The tilt works great. I had another unit here and switched the limit switch and it still isn't working... Maybe both of them had bad limit switches. If it was a bad switch would the tilt still work? The other unit I took the limit switch out of was a working unit with a 4 wire motor so i think that means the limit switch must work... My motor is just a two wire motor so I don't think it is smart enough to use the information from the limit switch."