all you pro guide owners out there I have an 2018 1775 pro guide and was wondering if you can use the manual motor lock on the side of your motor? mine wont trim up high enough.
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all you pro guide owners out there I have an 2018 1775 pro guide and was wondering if you can use the manual motor lock on the side of your motor? mine wont trim up high enough.
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You most likely have a limit on your trim that prevents the tiller arm from accidentally crushing the back deck. It may not be set correctly. Mechanic should be able to adjust it for you. I had a foot trim with my PG and it allowed me to trim as high as I wanted but you need to be extremely careful as you will be able to crush the deck with the tiller handle..
roger, trimmed up all the way I think I still have about 3inches or so before it hits the live well. plus I might get alittle more bow lift with alittle more trim. thanks man
I second Angler’s caution. I snapped my favorite rod in two last summer while trimming up my Dad’s pro guide and forgetting I had it lying there.
I better just leave it where it is, new boat dont really want to mess with anything
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My 2075 w/200 is similar, I can’t trim the motor up high enough to pop the lock into place. In fact, I had to modify an MY-Wedge to even get one of those in place. My trim limiter is set so that the tiller handle can get to where it almost-but-not-quite touches the rear deck. If you’ve got 3 more inches before contact, you can probably adjust the limit up further as there’s no reason to have the limiter stop you extra short.
I will take a picture tonight of the handle up and trimmed up to show distance. do you have to have a tech adjust it?
Had a 16 1775 pro guide with the Merc 90, and made a wedged wood block to go between motor nounting bracket,and lower unit when trailering. Trim limit was set to stop it from hitting deck, even with motor mounted one hole up. Could not trim high enough to use built in lock.
I guess I was wrong, only about 2 inch gap. how does that look? normal?
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I would adjust your trim limit, you just want it to stop before it hits. Yours looks to be set very conservative. I forget how it was done, but I think it involved turning the engine on and off at its limits. There was a little more to it, but I don’t remember exactly what. I had to redo mine when I installed a trim gauge, and everything had to be reset. I remember it was really simple, with the instruction sheet in front of me. The adjustment is electronic, not mechanical.
I have searched online and can’t find anything on how to do it.
You have to go under the hood, and if I remember right, there was a jumper wire there. You really need the instruction sheet. It was real simple with the sheet in front of me. Why don’t you just bring it to where you bought it. Should have been done on there setup. It took me longer to read the instructions, than to actually do it. I got my instruction sheet with a replacement harness my dealer sent me, that they thought might be bad, when the trim gauge didn’t work at first. It’s a Mercury printed document, maybe you can get it from them. I would just take it to your dealer, as with the setting that far off, your dealer may not have set it in the first place, and if so, you probably don’t have the jumper wire left in there, like they were supposed to, according to the Mercury instruction sheet I had. Mine was not in there, even though Mercury said the dealer was supposed to leave it installed after adjusting. Good sign they never adjusted it in the first place. Fortunately my new wire harness came with one. I no longer have the boat, or instructions, as I threw them out when I sold the boat.
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