I have a 1987 Sea Ray with OMC Chevy 350's and I just put in new Billet Pertronix Flame Thrower Electronic Distributors in my engines with new coils, plugs, and wires. Also put in a new ESA modules for the electronic distributors as well. My problem is when I go for a start to set the timing, the engine wants to start, but when I disengage the starter, the engine shutsdown. I connected two gray wires to the negative side of the coil and a purple/red and purple/black wire to the positive side of the coil from the engine harness, this is the same way it was hooked up with the old coil. I got the + and - distributor leads hooked up to the coil. This is obviously different than the old distributor because there was only the negative from the distributor. Do I need to connect the positive lead from the distributor to something else? It seems I'm losing the 12 volts for the distributor when I disengage the starter. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
Tim
Tim