Ok, so here is my problem. I have a 1970 mercury outboard 20hp model 200. I replaced the stator and all the wiring on it because it had all gone bad and was corroded and brittle. The motor started right up after putting it back together and ran perfectly took it on the water cranked up first pull every time i tried to start it that weekend. I put it up for the week and took it out this past friday to go fishing. I couldn't get it to start not even act like it wanted to. Even tried a little shot of starting fluid nothing. So I figured for some reason it wasn't getting fuel, that no longer seems the case. Pulled the spark plugs today and grounded them to the grounding screw on the power head with a piece of wire and pulled it a few times. No spark at all on either coil. It has new spark plugs too even went back to the old ones that where working for its first start still no spark. So I pulled the flywheel off to see if something somehow got fried with the stator looks fine all wires look fine. Now for the question, is it possible the new stator fried the coils? I have no idea where to go from here. The coils and the plug wires are the only things electrical i did not replace. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm missing good fishing days. Thanks.
