I need a little direction here. Today after running about 1/2 hour, I stopped and shut off the engine and it wouldn.t restart. Pull off the cover and the flywheel nut had come off and the flywheel was loose. Limped into a marina on my kicker and a marine tech fixed it up-new flywheel key, reassembled and we were on our way. Noticed the voltage was low so we blasted home. Got back to the dock and after lifting the motor the battery was dead. came home and checked and there is no charging. Went through the diag in the clymer manual.There is power and ground at the red and black wires at the rectifier. They call for a harness to check the rectifier which i don't have. I assume the rectifier is a group of diodes to change AC output to DC to charge the battery. Pulled off the rectifier and checked it with an ohmeter. From the terminal that the red wire plugs into on the rectifier there is 305 Ohms on the to all three terminals on the rectifier that lead to the coil and when you switch the leads there is 285 Ohms from red terminal to all 3 terminals to the coil. According to the manual there should be 100-300 Ohms 1 direction and No Continuety the other direction. The results are similar when you test from the neg (black) to the 3 wires that lead to the coil. This would indicate to me that the diodes are shorted. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? By the way, The 3 wires through the coil all have 5 Ohms resistence through each other. This would be the same in a car alternator so I believe the stator coil is ok
