Trim/tilt issue

[dfish28]

Haven't used my own boat in a few months, now the trim/tilt is stuck in up position, the release screw/valve will not move: had this problem when I got it a number of years ago... Anyone ever run into and happen to have any good tricks, she's still in her slip and it's a 97 Johnson 200 ocean runner...?

[Gerry Zagorski]

When you hit the trim and tilt switch do you hear the trim pump running?

[Striper80]

My 98 200 Johnson wouldn't trim down over this past season intermittently, it turned out to be a bad wire on the limit switch. The engine would go up but not down, drove me nuts.

[dfish28]

One good beer belly on the lower unit fixed it .... For now