Need some help from the forums.... with the nice warm weather we have been having I decided to get the boat ready for spring as I had a few things I wanted to get accomplished b4 im able to take the boat out hopefully in the next few weeks.
We'll I've run into a snag once I got the battery hooked up. I've got power to everything in the boat.
Stereo, lights, Horn, Dash Gages, keybaccessory and engine turns over. The only thing that isn't working is the trim doesn't work. When pressing the trim button both up and down nothing happenes no click, no sound.
When I key up the accessory power the trim gage registers trim position as up all the way Which it is.
I have contacted the previous owner and he has responded and said that last summer he had a problem with the trim not working and had to take it into a boat mechanic to diagnose and fix the the trim problem. He said it ended up being a faulty relay for the trim. He says it was just recently replaced and the old relay is in the boat inside the seat and I have confirmed this. He says he's unsure of why this is happening as it was just recently fixed last summer.
Today I plan on following my shop manual and testing to see where I'm getting power. I'll test the relay, switches and solenoid. I have someone more experience with electrical coming to lean me a hand with running the tests.
I ran a quick test with a light pen and didn't get any power at the solenoid which to my lack of electrical skills would suggest the relay again? Strange this is happening if this part was just swapped out. But I have yet to run a full test on the circuit. So will post some more information once I've completed the tests to help better describe the problem. If it is the relay and it was just replaced then there must be another underlying electrical problem causing the relay to keep failing, maybe someone on the forums has some insight.
Any help is greatly appreciated.