Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE

well the first thing I did was take the fuel filter off of her last night to see if I had any water in the fuel........and the answer is NO. there was nothing in the filter but gas. and some sediment.

So since I had gas in the bilge. I got rid of it and decided to let the fumes work there way out before I tried any electrical things. So tonight I will start with the electrical.

thanks and I will keep you posted. ;D
 
Wow, sounds like my Father's Day, except for the tow.

In another sign of too soon oldt, too late schmart I joined BOATUS last week and bought their towing insurance which worked like a charm, enabling me to putt-putt back to the dock a 2 knots in the pouring rain.

I went through the whole fuel, spark, compression thing too. It's no fun and you can't help thinking the worst but don't overlook the simple things.

Hope you figure it out.
 
Well Boys,

went home and sprayed the carb with a shot of ether, turned the key and nothing......

took the distributor cap off and realized the last time I did the points, I squashed the condesor wire in the cap. So I pulled it off and pulled off the coil and went to advance auto. got the new parts, and put them on and

SHE FIRED RIGHT UP, YAYYYYY!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

My only question is....advance sold me a new resistor, and for the life of me my buddy and I could not find the original resistor. anyone know where it is??
 
Airslot said:
Anyways, its gonna be fuel or ignition.  I'd have a peak under that distributor cap first just to make sure everything is free.
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Glad you got her back up and running.  ;)  I've not had an I/O for a while now.  The resisiotor may not be used on all models.  I ca't remember.  I thought it went inline between the dist and the coil?, but that just doesn't sound right to me?


Edit to add...

Check this link.
http://www.outboardrepairs.com/topics/004666.html
 The resistor goes between the condensor and coil + to drop the voltage to around 9v so you don't cook your ditstributors innards.   ;D

Sorry, I'm no help on the resisitor...
 
do you mean resitor or condensor? Mercruiser uses a resistor wire feeding voltage to the coil, if you separate the wiring harness, you'll find a small hard wire about two feet back from the coil( thats the inline resistor). You won't need the resistor that the parts store sold you. Do yourself a favor, install a pertronix electronic conversion, you wont be sorry. I've installed 100's of them, only had one fail due to low resistance in the coil( all the oil in the coil ran out thru the hole rusted in the bottom). If you decide to install one, open up the harness till you find the resiistor and cut it out, when they get old, they start to do weird things and cause strange ignition problems
 
It's cool here, its like doctors sitting around a giant electronic table in their own homes diagnosing problems and coming up with solutions while they are drinking some Jack and spanking a super model, or whatever you other guys do while your on the computer ;D
 
I'll second what Spareparts said. Install a Pertronix and never look back. I put one in my last boat with a 1985 4-cylinder Volvo motor. Got much improved idle and timing is set it and forget it. I think I paid under $70.00 online.

Steve P.
 
thanks for the help boys, dont know what I would do without you guys sometimes...... :-/ ;D

as far as electronic ignition, probably at the end of the season. she is running now, so I am going to leave it alone. ;D
 
carry a spare set of points and condensor, if you have a spare distributor thats no good, take the point plate out ind install the points on it before hand, makes it easier to swap while on th water. you still will have to set the gap, everyone used to use a match book as an emergency feeler gauge, its easier to find a feeler gauge than a matchbook now a days. BTW, if you install a pertronix, save that point plate an an external resistor, yoou never know when it may come in handy
 
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