Hello,
I am new to the forum here , and just wanted to say thank you to everyone for offering their knowledge , tips , and advise when it comes to working on these outboards. I used your forum to diagnose and get my old 1972 johnson 50hp running that I purchased with boat for dirt cheap.
My problem now is , I went through the CDI troubleshooting guide the other day for when my 50hp johnson was not sparking. I went through the steps and found out that it was a combination of rectifier and kill wire. I replaced rectifier and repaired killswitch wire and she was sparking and running good in the rain barrel!
When i took it to the lake , it did not want to rev out in forward gear , so i returned to the dock. At the dock I was making more adjustments and bumped it into gear when it was idling high. I then instantly shut it off to avoid hitting the dock. This is where my problem now lies , After trying to restart the motor I am not getting spark again! I went through the same CDI troubleshooting steps and still no spark.
Can anyone offer any suggestions? I used my multimeter to test stator and on the 2 yellow leads i got a reading of 1.8 , and then when i touched a lead from brown wire , and then the other lead to the powerhead for a ground i got 0. Would this not indiacte that the stator is fine? Also if i pull the coil orange wires off the powerpack and stick my test light in the screw hole in the powerpack and then have it grounded to the powerhead it flashes that power is going through.
Would a coil just suddenly fail? let alone both coils?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am new to the forum here , and just wanted to say thank you to everyone for offering their knowledge , tips , and advise when it comes to working on these outboards. I used your forum to diagnose and get my old 1972 johnson 50hp running that I purchased with boat for dirt cheap.
My problem now is , I went through the CDI troubleshooting guide the other day for when my 50hp johnson was not sparking. I went through the steps and found out that it was a combination of rectifier and kill wire. I replaced rectifier and repaired killswitch wire and she was sparking and running good in the rain barrel!
When i took it to the lake , it did not want to rev out in forward gear , so i returned to the dock. At the dock I was making more adjustments and bumped it into gear when it was idling high. I then instantly shut it off to avoid hitting the dock. This is where my problem now lies , After trying to restart the motor I am not getting spark again! I went through the same CDI troubleshooting steps and still no spark.
Can anyone offer any suggestions? I used my multimeter to test stator and on the 2 yellow leads i got a reading of 1.8 , and then when i touched a lead from brown wire , and then the other lead to the powerhead for a ground i got 0. Would this not indiacte that the stator is fine? Also if i pull the coil orange wires off the powerpack and stick my test light in the screw hole in the powerpack and then have it grounded to the powerhead it flashes that power is going through.
Would a coil just suddenly fail? let alone both coils?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.