First post, but thank you ahead of time for everyone's knowledge!! I have read and learned a lot over the years on repairing motors! This is my first motor repair with bad electronics. I read through other posts and pretty sure I have a bad stator. Picked up a very cheap boat for the motor that has good compression- 120 psi all 3 cylinders. Cleaned carb, hooked up and no spark all 3 plugs. Researched site. 1st eliminated ground or emergency shut off- unplugged black and white wire to CDI - tested no spark. Unplugged both yellow wires from Stator to rectifier- tested no spark. Unplugged both blue and red leads from stator and ohmed out. The red (low voltage?) was 115 ohms and the blue wire (high voltage) was open- no reading- tried many different ground points and open- no continuity. I assume stator is bad? I looked up on Popular Marine shop and get part #398-8778A29, but no stock. Looking at collective threads it looks like a 9 amp system. Here is my problem. The cross- reference unit from CDI electronics 174-8778k1 has 6 wires- 2 red, 2 blue and 2 yellow. My original has 1 red, 1 blue, 2 yellow and a black ground. Can I use this part? and how do I wire it up? Hopefully this will fix it and the CDI and rectifier are still good- didn't want to spend a lot of money. I will have to look further into threads to see how to check if CDI or rectifier is bad. I figured my only option is to replace first what is bad and then move on? I was thinking of testing the electrically output from the stator to further verify it is bad, but I need some type of shunt or device for my regular volt meter to read that 800 volts I believe?
