The iboats forum moderators are excited to announce that at this time it appears the iboats forums posting pictures function is working once again. Though we cannot promise for how long, we're hoping for indefinitely.
A couple of things to check ,
is it actually getting full throttle at the carbs ( check the linkages to verify the throttle shafts turn nearly 90 deg .
Is it running on all cylinders at full throttle ( it may idle on all cylinders but not at full throttle )
Both pots will fire at the same time . Its called wasted spark . Rather than have a sensor for each pot they have only one and it fires the (dual )coil every 180 deg with one plug sparking harmlessly at BDC. When testing for spark both plugs need to be earthed or neither of them will...
if you can replicate the fault by squeezing the cdi module , plus the thing working when warmed up ( the change in the temp of the cdi can cause things to "move about " ) makes me think of a dry joint somewhere in the cdi . Depends how brave you are :) , but I would have a look for dry...
