Using power trim without override button?

[TBarCYa]

My 1975 Regal with Ford 302 and 888 drive exhibits interesting behavior in the tilt/trim department. There are no trim sensors on the sides of the gimbal ring like on most drives and when I try to trim the drive out (up) I have to push the middle button on the console. The labels have faded on the console but I imagine it's a trim override and that I'm using the tilt function to move the drive out. Is there any way to set the thing up so that I can trim the drive without using the override and only use the override to move the drive higher when taking the boat out of the water? I have the electronics know-how to rewire the switches so the middle button isn't necessary but I would rather have it work as it was designed.

Thanks.

 

[Haut Medoc]

Re: Using power trim without override button?

Sounds like it is working the way it is designed to......
The top button is 'up'....
The middle button is 'up/out'......
The bottom, 'in'.......
If you push the middle button & the drive raises, what's the problem,
as long as your trim gauge works?....
I would not change a thing......
My drive will raise only when both buttons, top, middle are pushed.....
I'd say your's is working right & mine does not......
You should be able to tell by ear & feel if you are trimmed out right anyway.....​

 

[TBarCYa]

Re: Using power trim without override button?

I think I described the problem wrong. I have to push both the top and middle button to get the drive to move up just like you do. If I push either button by itself (top or middle) nothing happens. I also don't have a trim gauge which is probably why I don't have the sensors on the gimbal ring. I had thought that the up/out button would move the drive thru the trim range and that the middle button would be used in conjunction with the top button to achieve full up/out. I have to dig out the Clymer manual and figure out how it's supposed to work and work towards that goal.

There does appear to be a switch of some kind at the top of the bellhousing but I believe that's the trim limit switch to stop the pump when the drive is full up/out.