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Brian Cleveland
 
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Default Older Mercury Tilt & Trim Operation?

That is the "normal" operation. Requiring you to press both up and up/out
to raise the motor to trailer position helps keep you from accidentally
doing so while running


"Smokey & Bear" wrote in message
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My newly acquired 1976 24' pontoon has a 1943 Mercury model 500 50HP
outboard equipped with power tilt and trim. When you push the "up/out"
button by itself, the motor raises until the limit switch at the motor
opens. When you push both the "up" and "up/out" buttons together, the

motor
will bypass the limit switch and all the way up. Pushing the "up" button

by
itself does not do anything. The "in" button works fine. I have compared
the wiring to a pair of diagrams in a Clymer manual, and it matches
perfectly. The buttons function correctly when tested with an ohm meter.
All of the wiring is sound, and connected properly.

This control scheme does not appear to be intuitive, in that one would

think
that the "up" button would raise to the limit switch, and the "up/out"
button by itself would bypass the limit switch. Naturally I do not have

any
of the original owner's instructions. It would be a simple matter to

rewire
the system to make it perform as I believe it should, but if this

considered
normal operation then it is only me who is confused. By the way, the

Clymer
manual sequence of operations matches my intuitive description to a tee.

Is it normal for it to function as it does?