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    Mercruiser 170 Pertronix Ignitor no spark

    It is a one wire alternator. But, I think we found what was wrong tonight. We took the boat out for another ride this evening and the alternator bracket broke. Well, we checked it out and come to find out the inner bolt had broke off, so we have to drill that out and re-thread. Gotta find a...
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    Mercruiser 170 Pertronix Ignitor no spark

    Yea, I did forget to add that trim has never worked since he got the boat, but i did find a post where someone gave the colors and wire locations for the trim gauge so I may look into that one. Does anybody know what wires go where on the tachometer. I'm pretty decent at tracing wires and...
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    Mercruiser 170 Pertronix Ignitor no spark

    got a new electronic ignition conversion kit. Installed it and motor started right up. So, the module inside of the distributor went bad. Now, onto trying to figure out what he did when he was moving gauges around on the cluster. Everything works but the tachometer doesn't work. It moves when...
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    Mercruiser 170 Pertronix Ignitor no spark

    I have an issue with a 1986 Mercruiser 170 that has the Pertronix Ignitor ignition conversion kit installed in it. The owner of the boat decided to move some gauges around so he could install a Lowrance up near the cluster. It would block a couple of the gauges a little so decided to move more...
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    1983 Mercury 70hp EL no FIRE

    I've been working on a friend of mines pontoon boat that we had to replace the motor on due to a cracked head. He bought a used '83 mercury 70hp motor to replace it with. We installed it and it ran fine for a couple times, then we got into this no-run issue. It will crank but not run. I...
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    Is this a sign of bad gas?

    What is this that is showing up in the filter? Is that gas that has turned into gel? Is it supposed to look like that?
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    99 Mercury 2 cycle, 3 cylinder won't idle

    I friend of mine has a 3 cylinder Merc 75hp on the back of his pontoon that won't idle. He made the mistake of running it the first time this year without draining off the old gas. We have since cleaned out the carbs as best we could without removing them. I was able to remove the low speed idle...
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