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Tilt/trim slow speed is very very slow...

andiamo7scl

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I have a 1997 Yamaha 225 2 stroke outboard. The trim/tilt has 2 speeds. The fast speed, to bring up out of the water works fine. The slow speed, it switches into automatically when it is almost all the way down works very very slowly, to the point that it almost is stopped. The motor sounds fine, maybe slightly higher pitched while it is creeping downward or upward.

My boat guy who winterizes it and opens it up annually told me that I needed a new tilt/trim motor, and that I am leaking fluid. I top off the fluid now, but even with the fluid full to the plug, so that it is leaking out, it is still very very slow. At a cost of about $2000 I wanted to get another opinion here before I did anything.

I have owned the boat for 7 years and for the first 5 the trim/tilt worked perfectly, just last season and now the problem has persisted.
Thanks for any help!
Greg
 
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