93' 350 Mag alpha one gen 2, thunderbolt IV I believe.
Started 2 years ago, thought I kept blowing coils on new wires. I'd replace the coil and it would fire right up. Happened again last season, this time I tried changing just the coil wire and it fired right up. Fast forward to last weekend, half way home she died on me. Still had the 'bad' coil wire I had removed last season in the boat, so while sea-tow was on their way I decided to try it. Low and behold it started right up, it felt down on power while planing but it made it home.
What the heck is going on? I'm running the proper quicksilver coil as my seloc manual explains its some special kind of coil and running quicksilver wires as well. Engine has about 460 hours on it, before all these problems in the first ~5 years of ownership I never had to replace anything on the ignition system, but did as typical maintenance. What am I doing wrong here? Or what part has gone bad in the boat? I'm ready to completely ditch the thunderbolt system and get a mallory if this keeps happening. Cap, rotor, coil and all wires were replaced last season. Going to get new plugs/wires for it and install tomorrow, I assume this will fix the problem temporarily.
Any help/insight appreciated.
If I do need to replace the whole system, is this the right one?
http://bpi.ebasicpower.com/pc/MAL9-26000/MER10A-IB
Started 2 years ago, thought I kept blowing coils on new wires. I'd replace the coil and it would fire right up. Happened again last season, this time I tried changing just the coil wire and it fired right up. Fast forward to last weekend, half way home she died on me. Still had the 'bad' coil wire I had removed last season in the boat, so while sea-tow was on their way I decided to try it. Low and behold it started right up, it felt down on power while planing but it made it home.
What the heck is going on? I'm running the proper quicksilver coil as my seloc manual explains its some special kind of coil and running quicksilver wires as well. Engine has about 460 hours on it, before all these problems in the first ~5 years of ownership I never had to replace anything on the ignition system, but did as typical maintenance. What am I doing wrong here? Or what part has gone bad in the boat? I'm ready to completely ditch the thunderbolt system and get a mallory if this keeps happening. Cap, rotor, coil and all wires were replaced last season. Going to get new plugs/wires for it and install tomorrow, I assume this will fix the problem temporarily.
Any help/insight appreciated.
If I do need to replace the whole system, is this the right one?
http://bpi.ebasicpower.com/pc/MAL9-26000/MER10A-IB