Can someone diagnose my tilt trim?

FishStretcher · #1 09-20-2021, 07:14 PM

I am not quite sure what's wrong? Maybe there's a pill for that...

bumpdraft · #2 09-20-2021, 07:32 PM

You got a boo boo.

NoBones · #3 09-20-2021, 08:11 PM

Thinking you backed into something solid, and it broke.....
Convince me otherwise.
To have that ram bent and snapped out of the mid section would of been blunt force trauma !!!!

FishStretcher · #4 09-20-2021, 08:17 PM

Sort of. The little spring on the motor lock failed. It allowed the locking tab to wedge it solid when I was running the ram. 20+ years of corrosion on the weld at the eye snapped it. Then I tried to trim it up, it slipped past the eye up into the casting and bent itself. That and running in reverse popped the motor up and then it slammed back down. Which is probably what did the significant bending.

I wouldn't have believed it if I wasn't there.

The whole thing practically fell out when I removed the lower pin tonight. The upper pin looks to be a rusted PITA. But I have a portapower, so I think I can drive it out in place. Or MIG to it and use a slide hammer.

FLexpat · #5 09-20-2021, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by FishStretcher

I am not quite sure what's wrong? Maybe there's a pill for that...

yeah - shaped exactly like a credit card...