1995 rinker 180, 3ltr merc, alpha 1
I have searched the links and found all the suggestions for self diagnosis, which I will be performing shortly, but was wondering if this could be an issue.
First, the story. Have used the boat as recently as 4 days ago with no starting issues, either hot or cold. New battery and even swapped out for another new battery, so thats not the problem. Put the boat in the water 2 days ago and no start. Turned over fine, with adequate rpm (to what it had before), flooded the engine. Let it sit, throttle wide open, etc, still no go. Pulled plugs, dried, looked good, checked connections, pulled dizzy (fun doing that with a pocket knife
, time to build a toolkit), lots of corrosion, no track marks. Cleaned electrodes and rotor, pulled module to check if grounds were rusted. Still no go. There is a spark on all plugs but weak and erratic. Will do the testing of the components to see if thats the problem but this brings me to my question.
I replaced the tach between runnings. I set the switch on the back of the tach to 4c as this is what I have and can't see any other logical setting on the back. The tach is the same as the one I pulled, just 0-7000 instead of 0-6000.
Can't see how that would make a difference. Could having the incorrect setting somehow cause this? Could it cause the failure of one of the components? I pulled the leads of the tach to see if that was the problem but still no go, but maybe the damage was already done.
As I said, I will be doing all the testing shortly but curious why it failed in the first place. Maybe it was just time, after all, looking at the dizzy screws, I don't think it was ever removed before. Still glossy black paint on the screw heads.
Great forum, guys. Keep up the good work.
Gord
I have searched the links and found all the suggestions for self diagnosis, which I will be performing shortly, but was wondering if this could be an issue.
First, the story. Have used the boat as recently as 4 days ago with no starting issues, either hot or cold. New battery and even swapped out for another new battery, so thats not the problem. Put the boat in the water 2 days ago and no start. Turned over fine, with adequate rpm (to what it had before), flooded the engine. Let it sit, throttle wide open, etc, still no go. Pulled plugs, dried, looked good, checked connections, pulled dizzy (fun doing that with a pocket knife
, time to build a toolkit), lots of corrosion, no track marks. Cleaned electrodes and rotor, pulled module to check if grounds were rusted. Still no go. There is a spark on all plugs but weak and erratic. Will do the testing of the components to see if thats the problem but this brings me to my question.I replaced the tach between runnings. I set the switch on the back of the tach to 4c as this is what I have and can't see any other logical setting on the back. The tach is the same as the one I pulled, just 0-7000 instead of 0-6000.
Can't see how that would make a difference. Could having the incorrect setting somehow cause this? Could it cause the failure of one of the components? I pulled the leads of the tach to see if that was the problem but still no go, but maybe the damage was already done.
As I said, I will be doing all the testing shortly but curious why it failed in the first place. Maybe it was just time, after all, looking at the dizzy screws, I don't think it was ever removed before. Still glossy black paint on the screw heads.
Great forum, guys. Keep up the good work.
Gord
