Trim Tab Leak

[dlfish702]

Noticed a small hydraulic leak at the ram above my port trim tab. Any ideas on how to stop this or do a temporrary fix short of pulling the boat and having it done?
Boat is a 360 Sundancer (2005) with 8.1 Merc V-Drives

 

[Bucit]

I just fixed the same problem. Here are the things Bennett has me do in this order. Unfortunatly the last and hardest one was the fix.

Grab the ram and turn to tighten. If it's loose it will leak.

If it still leaks the O-Ring may be bad. Bennett will send you new ones at no cost.

If it still leaks like mine did (I finally noticed that I had a pin hole in the upper hinge assembly) then call Bennett, they will send you a new one for free and you will have to replace the top hinge. My boat is on a lift so it wasn;t too bad but it took about 3-5 hours to fix becasue mine was not installed like Bennett shows. Mine did not have the brass elbow so I undid the 3 scres, cut away the 5200 and was able to pull the hinge off the transom and the hose came through the transom.

 

[dlfish702]

Bucit
Thanks for the detailed info, appreciate it.
I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[Bucit]

Glad to be of help.