I noticed this morning that the drive was trimmed all the way down into the ground (typically I trim almost all the way down, stop right @ skeg to flush). And there was trim fluid running out of the bilge. Long story short, the trim automatically trimmed itself down, ran until battery was dead and got the motor/pump way hot, hot enough to melt the plastic reservoir. (hence the fluid leak). Removed the pump assembly and have a new reservoir but in checking the wiring / relays the "down" wire is energized all the time. So either the trim switch in the control box failed or the wiring has a short. (betting on the trim switch because the boat was uncovered in lots of Fay rain recently and the trim button has small hole where your thumb activates it, plus short to +12V, seems odd.) My problem now is...how do I remove the control box assembly? I removed the 3 self tapping screws, but acts like it will not come thru the side of the boat. (see pic). I posted a pic on the boat topics not engine, but since then I found out I believe it think it is VP part, so I posted a longer story here, hopefully they can delete other post if I am violating site policy.
