My 32 fountain has sticky drive switch. I'm a weekend boater so the boat does not get used to much. When I plane out, I cannot get the drives to go up. After 5 minutes or so of pressing and depressing switches they will move. Is there something I can do to free them up or are the switches going bad. My mechanic says there fine. But, when I get in water I seem to have a problem.

Your solenoids are bad. They are around $16 each to replace. Just did mine. Same problem. Hardin marine has them part number 137-8081. Or my mechanic told me a better heavy duty solenoid would be ARCO SW058HD. Sometimes they come bad right out of the box so order a few to have on hand.

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Thankyou, i'll do just that.

If they trim up fine when at rest, but not when underway, your pumps might be shot. It takes alot of force to get the drive to trim up against the thrust of the propeller trying to push them back down.