I recently bought a 19 foot Capri, with an 88 125 Force outboard. I have a few questions. Should I be able to use the power tilt when I am coming into shallow water, to hold the motor in between fully up and fully down, so that the prop does not hit bottom? When the engine is fully up it slowly bleeds back down again and when I have tried to partially put it up coming into shallow water, the force from the prop pushes it back down. I tore apart the lift cylinder and replaced all of the O-rings in an attempt to correct this problem and noticed that someone had already been in this cylinder before me. I put the cylinder back together exactly as it came apart, but it did not help the bleed down problem. The piston has two ports on one side and one port on the other. I noticed on the IPB, that it shows the two ports facing the stem and this is after I had put it all back together the way that it came apart, with the single port facing the stem. Can anyone tell me what the correct position is for the piston and if I tore the cylinder apart again and faced the piston with the double ports towards the stem, if this would correct the bleed down problem? Or is the problem in the pump instead?