jayhawkokie
Petty Officer 3rd Class
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- Mar 21, 2008
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The boat totally lost power in the water, and in an earlier post on this forum I was told it could be an ignition problem.
I could only find one new coil in town so I replaced one of the coils that was badly cracked and am getting another new coil in tomorrow. I checked both coils with my induction timing light and it shows spark to both plugs.
I borrowed an inline spark plug tester and I get no light on the tester to both plugs. I put the boat in the water and put it in gear, at full throttle I couldn't get it to run much above idle speed. Setting on the trailer with the hose muff on it starts and runs great, and I put in gear and quickly advanced the throttle up and back to idle and it seemed to run and accelerate fine.
I can pull the plug wire off the old coil and the engine still runs, when I pull it off the plug with the new coil the engine dies, telling me that perhaps I don't have enough fire from the old coil to fire the plug under compression.
I'm wondering if I also need to replace the power pack, it looks like it's been around for awhile.
I hope someone can help me, there are fish out there waiting for me.
Jayhawkokie
Grand Lake O' the Cherokees Oklahoma
I could only find one new coil in town so I replaced one of the coils that was badly cracked and am getting another new coil in tomorrow. I checked both coils with my induction timing light and it shows spark to both plugs.
I borrowed an inline spark plug tester and I get no light on the tester to both plugs. I put the boat in the water and put it in gear, at full throttle I couldn't get it to run much above idle speed. Setting on the trailer with the hose muff on it starts and runs great, and I put in gear and quickly advanced the throttle up and back to idle and it seemed to run and accelerate fine.
I can pull the plug wire off the old coil and the engine still runs, when I pull it off the plug with the new coil the engine dies, telling me that perhaps I don't have enough fire from the old coil to fire the plug under compression.
I'm wondering if I also need to replace the power pack, it looks like it's been around for awhile.
I hope someone can help me, there are fish out there waiting for me.
Jayhawkokie
Grand Lake O' the Cherokees Oklahoma