“Trim Fault” message?

[Frederick San Diego]

So I took my 2005 SeaRay Sundeck 200 with a 4.3 MPI out yesterday in San Diego Harbor. Was a beautiful day but lots of chop so could only open it up a few times. 3 times (after getting to plane) at about 3800-4200 RPMs I heard a loud beep and the message “Trim Fault” popped up on the lower part of one of the gauges on the dash. It disappears after a few seconds and the boat continued to run fine. Does it have anything to do with charging through chop at 35-40 mph and bouncing around a bit? Or is there another explanation out there? Can’t find this in the owners manual at all. Thanks!

 

[ATLTiger97]

Trim sender and limiter are probably bad. It is something you change when doing an outdrive service. Sadly it is near impossible to fix without pulling the drive on a B3, although I have send you tube videos on it. If you are do for bellows, etc, then do it then. Very common. It is two pucks on either side of your outdrive with wires.

 

[Frederick San Diego]

I just had the outdrive pulled for a rebuild. The fault message doesn’t pop up unless we are really moving through chop. If I don’t do anything on this what is the negative? Thanks

 

[scoflaw]

Had that message before, mine was a gauge problem, trim worked fine

 

[JayhawkCurtis]

I put new tilt/trim senders on when I changed my bellows on my bravo III last winter. This spring i would get the same alarm on the hole shot when I had trimmed all the way down. Turned out I had the adjustment a little 2 low, and it was losing contact. I adjusted the trim sender up just a little and quit having that problem.
Not sure i am describing this correctly.

 

[bbwhitejr]

Trim sender and limiter are probably bad. It is something you change when doing an outdrive service. Sadly it is near impossible to fix without pulling the drive on a B3, although I have send you tube videos on it. If you are do for bellows, etc, then do it then. Very common. It is two pucks on either side of your outdrive with wires.

I replaced a set of senders on a '06 260DA without removing the B3 outdrive. Turned down a 1/4" drive 7/16" socket to make it shorter. Then with a long 1/4" extension and my wife's small hand, it was not a big deal. Took about an hour total to install and get them adjusted. There is a good write up on here about doing it without removing the drive.

Bennett

 

[Frederick San Diego]

Thank you for all the
Answers. I am going to investigate and get back to you all with what the resolution was!