Its a 94 intruder 150hp. The whole sequence; I was on Rainy Lake at a boat in camp with an open dock, after 3 days of rain I heard my trim running and went to the dock and it was trimming down continuously and the up would only cause it stop running, no other action. Released the up switch and it resumed down. All switches did the same thing. Tapping the relays had no effect. I replaced the relays and it worked normal for about 30 seconds then did the same thing. Tapping the relays had no effect. Popped out the relays and swapped in the originals and it worked for about a minute. Waited a couple hours and found each swap it took longer to fail. Got to working 10 minutes, and we found we could pop in and pop out a relay and it would work right away. It continued to improve where the last two days it only did it once. The last few times we found all that was needed was to tap a relay and it resumed normal function. I popped out the bow switches and everything appears very dry. Pretty good in a 20 year old boat. After messing around I have managed to tear the rubber boot but I do not know if that was there before I started trying to fix things. Anyway I do need to replace those, if it was not a switch and was likely in the wiring I was considering not replacing the bow switches since I dont use them a lot, but I do use them and would prefer to have them functional.
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