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I have a 2015 275V with a DPS-B drive. The trip out before todays trip I noticed the trim gague was reading higher than normal, I hit the trim button a couple times and it seemed to read normally. Today as I was leaving the marina the gague was reading half way. I tried toggling the trim switch and it did no good. I stopped the boat and checked to make sure the drive is going full travel up and down. All good there. What I have now is a gague that reads half to full with the switch ,quite sparadically, and the EVC information panel showing a trim of between 8 - 27 degrees. Before I start digging into this, does anyone have any sugestions where to start. Can I ohm read at the gague to check the $296.00 sending unit?

There are quite a few troubleshooting guides across the interwebs and youtube, but yes you can find the pigtail for the sender and test the resistance....the sender is a common failure item.

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Jon Miller
1998 four Winns Horizon H200
Volvo Penta 4.3 GL
Newtown, CT

untitled-545 by millerjont, on Flickr

Wound up changing the sender. Followed the instructions in the Volvo manual, all went well. Time consuming project but patience prevailed. Thank you for the responce.

I’ve changed mine about 4 times over the course of almost 20 years, they don’t last long in salt water. My previous mechanic came up with a work around to make this job easier that it would normally be. It is nice to have it working. At the same time I fixed the Speedo by just cleaning out the sender and tube on the transom, so now all the gauges work lol!

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

Thanks LouC. Can you tell us what your mechanic did to make it easier. It sounds like I will be changing it again in the future.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ugdxo8n6dfab ... d.jpg?dl=0

Mechanic drilled a hole in the transom mount and ran the wire up the transom like a transducer cable so you don’t have to try to get into that nearly inaccessible place where it normally comes out of the inner transom area.

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

Thank you for taking the time to send the picture. Says a thousand words. I will save this for the next time I go change it out and don't want to expose my wife (first mate) to the vulgarities.

Lol. When I do jobs like that (replacing the steering actuator behind the engine comes to mind) I curse in Italian (learned from my parents & other older relatives) so the neighbors aren’t offended! Because none of them understand!

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

N.G. LouC, wife is 100% Italian. And lucky me she loves the boat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcp8rN-YqLw
lol!
the Spumoni Gardens Pizza place is a real place that we used to go to when we lived in Bensonhurst, its still there. Bensonhurst is the Italian American capital of Brooklyn, NY. Lived there from 1958-1968 and still miss it.

this guy is just hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHMLV ... 3aYAjjVu3g

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

Thanks again for the help with my sensor questions as well as the Utube sites,they were great. Enjoy italian heritage month. Some day I have to break down and bring my wife back to her Bologna. She spent five years there in the late 60'S. I was in V-Nam.