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Yeah, those things are a bear to tilt because of the two shock absorbers, you are wrestling against the shocks when tilting the engine. Add some corrosion/rust and you have got a real wrestling match. The tilt assist bar is a great thing to have for sure. I’m trying to remember just how the two tilt locks are set up but can’t, some of them were designed to fall into place on their own while tilting the engine up. To tilt it down, you needed to pick it up a bit so you could manually move the tilt lock the engine would tilt down.
Some of those darn run/release mechanisms can be a real bear to repair/replace. I’m pretty sure the swivel bracket/transom bracket/midsection would have to be removed on the engine Frank pictured in order to replace that lever, so I hope amuller’s isn’t broken that way….
Post some pictures of all this, maybe we can make some sense out of it…