Hello all,
Bought a boat last year and now working on the motor. The big issue is that we cant a spark at the spark plugs, let me tell you what has been done so far.
First off, we are trying to start this beast from a truck battery. The starter turns and high voltage sends power to the flywheel no problem. (testing with an ohms and volt meter). There is also return power to the high voltage and the saftey switch works correctly. We have replaced the rotor cap under the flywheel and verified all cables and parts for cracks and cant seem to find any. We checked all spark plug wires and voltage wires with the voltage meter and they all pass. Both points inside the flywheel are opening and closing and creating circuits as well. There seems to be a problem from what we can see from power being sent to the distributor to the rotor but when testing with tin foil in between to see if a circuit can be done the test worked. We can test form the distributor on and there is a circuit and from the rotor backwards there is a circuit. Could it be a bad distributor cap? If you need more info let me know as im out of ideas.
Nick
Bought a boat last year and now working on the motor. The big issue is that we cant a spark at the spark plugs, let me tell you what has been done so far.
First off, we are trying to start this beast from a truck battery. The starter turns and high voltage sends power to the flywheel no problem. (testing with an ohms and volt meter). There is also return power to the high voltage and the saftey switch works correctly. We have replaced the rotor cap under the flywheel and verified all cables and parts for cracks and cant seem to find any. We checked all spark plug wires and voltage wires with the voltage meter and they all pass. Both points inside the flywheel are opening and closing and creating circuits as well. There seems to be a problem from what we can see from power being sent to the distributor to the rotor but when testing with tin foil in between to see if a circuit can be done the test worked. We can test form the distributor on and there is a circuit and from the rotor backwards there is a circuit. Could it be a bad distributor cap? If you need more info let me know as im out of ideas.
Nick