Re: Trim question.
CntrySngr,<br /><br />You probably do not have power steering then. You could be absolutely positive if there is no belt driven power steering pump that looks very similar if not identical to an auto unit.<br /><br />Let's assume that you do NOT have power steering. There is a vertical tab/fin at the end of your outdrive. Sticks down towards the prop and slightly behind it. It is mounted to a horizontal plate that "covers" the prop from above (anti-ventilation plate). This fin is there to help you turn the wheel and counteracts the propeller's desire to push the drive one way (without it your boat would steer very hard one way and too easily the other). Anyway it can be easily adjusted to see if that improves your issue without making some other point of operation unsafe or undersirable. What you will find is that there will be a new point of hard steering . . . Find a compromise that you are comfortable with.<br /><br />As far as trim is concerned for you I would not trim further up if it does not increase my speed. Basically, even though your guage says it is half way and your trim limit switch allows you to go there, it doesn't mean that it is helpful or deirable. Getting this type of stuff right can only be accomplished by exactly what you are doing: messing around. You will learn a lot that way. If you have a GPS you can get pretty dialed in, but you need to know that the next time somebody moves to new position in your boat or you bring along your 300 lb. Aunt Bessie, everything you have learned is kinda out the window as trim may need to be set differently for that new set of conditions. You should pretty much always trim all of the way down to get onto plane. That doesn't vary much.<br /><br />kozman1,<br /><br />Is this an outdrive? Outboard? Assuming that this is an outdrive, your gauge is not the ultimate decision maker, it is the true position/angle of the drive, and the behavior of your propeller and boat combo.
