Dauntless14
New member
Hello everybody,
I have a 50HP 3 Cylinder 2 stroke Mercury that has been giving me problems with the Tilt.
I can not pinpoint it, so I will give you the symptoms:
Occasionally the tilt up, or the tilt down will not work.
I have replaced the solenoid,
and the symptoms are the same regardles if I use the tilt switch on the throttle, or the one in the engine.
If I unplug, ann plug the solenoids in, sometimes it works again.
Then it will work for a while, and stop working.
If I take the 2 wires that go to the harness and switch them around, (up is down and down is up) it starts working again, and then stops after a few weeks, and suddenly, after a few minutes, runs again.
I have tried to see if there is a ground problem, with the solonoids, but they seem to be all properly grounded.
I thought that it is perhaps a motor problem, but banging on the motor did not help, but again switching the cables worked.
Perhaps I have a bad switch. I can'd imagine that the two switches are in series so that one bad switch would disable the system.
I am pretty sure that it may be a bad ground, or a bad connector in the harness, but playing with the harness did not make things budge. I would think that if it is such an intermittend connection problem, pulling/pushing the wires or the harness would have make things at least momentarily work, but it does not. Only disconnecting and reconnecting, and sometimes, after running the engine for 10-15 minutes, it starts up working again.
So I am on the edge because I never know if I will be able to bring the engine down, or if I will be able to trim it.
Is there anything that I am missing ?
Thank you very much
Armand
Boston, MA
I have a 50HP 3 Cylinder 2 stroke Mercury that has been giving me problems with the Tilt.
I can not pinpoint it, so I will give you the symptoms:
Occasionally the tilt up, or the tilt down will not work.
I have replaced the solenoid,
and the symptoms are the same regardles if I use the tilt switch on the throttle, or the one in the engine.
If I unplug, ann plug the solenoids in, sometimes it works again.
Then it will work for a while, and stop working.
If I take the 2 wires that go to the harness and switch them around, (up is down and down is up) it starts working again, and then stops after a few weeks, and suddenly, after a few minutes, runs again.
I have tried to see if there is a ground problem, with the solonoids, but they seem to be all properly grounded.
I thought that it is perhaps a motor problem, but banging on the motor did not help, but again switching the cables worked.
Perhaps I have a bad switch. I can'd imagine that the two switches are in series so that one bad switch would disable the system.
I am pretty sure that it may be a bad ground, or a bad connector in the harness, but playing with the harness did not make things budge. I would think that if it is such an intermittend connection problem, pulling/pushing the wires or the harness would have make things at least momentarily work, but it does not. Only disconnecting and reconnecting, and sometimes, after running the engine for 10-15 minutes, it starts up working again.
So I am on the edge because I never know if I will be able to bring the engine down, or if I will be able to trim it.
Is there anything that I am missing ?
Thank you very much
Armand
Boston, MA