I have a bit of an issue and would appreciate a few suggestions. I posted a little while back about a magnet breaking on my flywheel. The original flywheel on my motor. The correct part number for it is 9008A54. The only place I could find that online was at boats.net. Ordered it and they sent a flywheel with a different part #. (859236T14) ... Before I go any further... I found a used flywheel locally that came off a 75 hp 1998 Force. Tried it on my motor and we just couldn't get the numbers on the flywheel to show up on the light on the timing gun. Ran it for a few seconds while playing around with the timing and couldn't get it to run right. I was told by a respectable mechanic in our area that if the timing marks on the trigger magnets are not the same, it will tell the trigger to fire at all the wrong times and cause the motor to not run right. Back to the new flywheel.. the first thing I looked at when it was shipped to me were the timing marks on the trigger magnets. They are set exactly the same as the one I found locally. About 180 degrees out compared to my original flywheel.
Talked to boats.net and a couple techs at Mercury. All say that flywheel 859236T14 should cross over to my motor. I'm a bit confused being told by a mechanic that if the timing marks are different, it won't work. Then I'm being told that this is in fact the correct flywheel that will work on my motor. What am I missing? Are the timing marks the problem or do I have the correct flywheel and possibly something else electrical is fould up? I will add two pictures trying to demonstrate the location of the timing marks. Thanks for any input!
Talked to boats.net and a couple techs at Mercury. All say that flywheel 859236T14 should cross over to my motor. I'm a bit confused being told by a mechanic that if the timing marks are different, it won't work. Then I'm being told that this is in fact the correct flywheel that will work on my motor. What am I missing? Are the timing marks the problem or do I have the correct flywheel and possibly something else electrical is fould up? I will add two pictures trying to demonstrate the location of the timing marks. Thanks for any input!