Shipyard Isl. Marine Engine Parts - There I was, knee deep in handgrenade pins......

There I am, winky connected, ready to pounce on the first errant flashes. Seas were rough, caught bait, no problems yet but haven't opened it up either. Started trolling livees, still no flashes, then out of no where, the starboard engine starts tilting up. Just got the engine turned off in time before it came out of the water. Tried all the switches, couldn't stop the trim motor. Finally, turned off the batteries. Came back to Ft. Laud from Hillsboro on one engine. A little later in the ride, I turned the batteries back on the and trim motor did not come on again (either came unstuck or burned out- don't know which). Tried the switches (dual on throttle, single on throttle - both main and remote consoles, and side engine switch - all nada)

Disconnected the side engine switch thinking it might have gotten wet. Nope. In fact, felt like there was no "flick" in the rocker switch, just kinda flopped back and forth.

Anyway...I have a Yam 704 thottle on the 2000 250 SWS II. Any thoughts on a quick way to narrow down: if I just have a bad switch, which switch is it; do I have to replace the whole throttle unit; is it the tilt motor; and/or check out the tilt motor?

p.s. I took the trailor switch from the other engine and attached ( could remove cowling cover just enough to get to the wire harness of the stuck engine). Connected and when I press the switch, I can here a solenoid sound, but no motor action.

Nes,

Take a breather and put the pins back in the grenades! ../images/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Yes I told you to run the engine with the winky blink connected, but if you had to do it rough conditions......well I might have been a little leary of doing that. You obviously need to do that when it is calm and keep the spray on the engine to minimum.

To the trim question.......now you have nothing on that....it does not work at all? Fuse check?Be preprared for it to come back on when you replace it. As far as why it is stuck on......either the contol handleswitch, engine mountedbelly pan switch or the relayis bad. The switches are easy to troubleshoot. Just dis-connect them.

Andy