paulhaines2000
Cadet
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- Feb 17, 2011
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Friend of mine was giong across the lake with his Mercury and it died - no start. Paddled home. I told him I'd take a look. If I remember right, it's a early to mid 70's Merc. 10 HP. (Sorry about the lack of detail on that, it's been a while since I looked at it and he wants to get it going over the winter so I'm doing a little more research before he dumps money into it). Anyhow, I immediately found no spark on one plug. I pulled the flywheel and holy smokes! Melted ignition module - looked like an electrical "near" fire from the inside of the module. Mechanically, beautiful condition and good compression. Coils are good. What in the heck could cause the ignition module to get so hot it melts down??? Could there be other big problems that could make it not worth fixing or is it likely as simple as a module that just went bad?