"Trim" indicator

[The Whale]

I need a bit of help. I bought a 1980 19' Starcraft, glass, 140 hp I/O with an Alpha 1 outdrive. Great boat. One thing though, the trim indicator on the dash doesn't work at all. The wires are hooked up, just no dial movement when actuating the tilt/trim. Any suggestions where to start looking ?

[Sportfishermans SVC]

Then sensors on those drives are notorious for having issues. A sensor kit runs around 80 dollars and is normally available at most service dealers. It is a part they tend to keep on hand as they will have a couple sold each year.

[Dv8oR]

Trim and Limit switches on either side of the Alpha 1.

My gauge goes from one extreme to the other, I would check it out at the gauge too though, or if your real handy check it out right at the switches themselves.

From what I hear, its not the 80 buck switches its routing the wiring thats the bugger. I read somewhere that you even have to pull the drive to do it, like a clamp or something that holds the harness down as the pass through the transom.

My other wonder, why not just put the new switches to the old wiring?


Tim

[roger23]

If trim and tilt work you may be better off just running them where the boat needs to be set. You may open a can of worms you may have to pull the outdrive I would wait untill the fall when you have all winter to play with them

[Sportfishermans SVC]

If you splice the switches in they will not work, you cannot cut and splice the wires as it affects the way the system works. It is a rather labor intensive job to replace them, I would recommend planning for a full days work to do it.

[The Whale]

Appreciate the responses. Sounds like it may involve more than what I had hoped for. Will do a bit of checking at the outdrive, and take a meter to the switch connections to see if the power is coming in there too, will definitely wait for the fall if it looks intensive. Thanks. :)