manual tilt

[Lou]

Yamaha 2004 115

My tilt motor isn't working and I need to learn to use the alternative manual method for tilting the motor. There is a drawing in the owners manual of the "manual valve screw," but it's not the best diagram. Can someone describe where I'll find this screw?

Is manually tilting the motor safe?

 

[Dave LeGear]

"Much" safer to correct the issue with the hydraulic tilt system. That is a lot of raw grunt (force) to try and man handle unless you are manually tilting it up one time to make repairs the hydraulic system

I almost bet it is a simple tilt motor outage or a wiring connection running to the tilt motor under the engine that is giving you the problem.

 

[Lou]

Thanks Putershark.

My tilt motor isn't working because I stupidly put the battery in backwards. When I put it in the right way, the tilt motor wouldn't work. I haven't figured out yet what damage I did or how to fix it, but I'm in the situtation where I'm probably going to have to manually tilt the engine. Got an idea what I did and the correction? I'm leaning toward looking for a fuse.