Please help, no spark and so lost

[2Stroken]

Have you checked that the wires have continuity. A wire that is broken inside the Insulation can be a Bear to find. Ones that are Susceptible, are the ones that go to the Armature Plate, as they are flexed as the Throttle advances/retards the Timing

I considered this, but as before mentioned, the coil and the sensor have switched out for new parts. But to answer your question, i have not. Im ordering a multimeter, but at this point im very frustrated wth this motor. It should work, it should have spark and be easyvto find any discrepencies on a simple set up.

 

[2Stroken]

the cdi is dead .

Is this the cd2 power pack? Ive swapped out for brand new power pack. Again i can post pics of anything anybody would like to see on the motor. Im so frustrated and really dejected right now. This dang motor haha

 

[racerone]

Swapping parts out gets expensive in a hurry.----Find your local friendly boat shop.----They can get this simple ignition sorted out while you go for a coffee.

 

[2Stroken]

Swapping parts out gets expensive in a hurry.----Find your local friendly boat shop.----They can get this simple ignition sorted out while you go for a coffee.

Thats about where im at , luckily i had some other parts to use, so im only out about 75-80$ so far. Any idea what a boat shop would charge to sort this kind of thing out? I know thats entirely subjective to what they need to do to sort it out, but a ballpark idea

 

[saltchuckmatt]

Possibly your new parts are defective and a broken wire can be time consuming to find.

Take a break and when your tester arrives trouble shoot from the top until you find the culprit.

 

[stresspoint]

I considered this, but as before mentioned, the coil and the sensor have switched out for new parts. But to answer your question, i have not. Im ordering a multimeter, but at this point im very frustrated wth this motor. It should work, it should have spark and be easyvto find any discrepencies on a simple set up.

Is this the cd2 power pack? Ive swapped out for brand new power pack. Again i can post pics of anything anybody would like to see on the motor. Im so frustrated and really dejected right now. This dang motor haha

check the wiring on the new power pack , i had one that was wired wrong from the manufacture.
i see your frustration , but just because these motors are small and look relatively simple , they are not , in fact they can be more complicated than a V4 or a V6 when chasing down faults.

have you tested the over temperature switch in the head yet ?

 

[tphoyt]

Agreed with taking a break. Sometimes you just need to walk away for bit then light bulbs comes on and you realized what you have over looked.
Best of luck.

 

[flyingscott]

Is this motor a tiller or remote? How are you testing for spark?

 

[2Stroken]

Is this motor a tiller or remote? How are you testing for spark? And that's kind of why I was wondering what that other ground is in the illustration? Because I don't have another ground coming off my power pack nor did the one I pulled off in the first place have one?, yeah I'm doing the lower main seal on a little five horse, and I'm also doing a carb as well as a coil replacement on a 18 horse 7 rude fast twin so I got other stuff to do right now. I've just never had such an issue tracking down what would be seemingly simple? I'm either going to take a little break on it or just go drop it off at the outboard shop and say hey it's got all new ignition parts but still won't spark figure it out bye LOL, thanks alot for the help....im just shaking my head over here

Tiller and checking by spinning the crankshaft bolt with drill and pull cord.

 

[2Stroken]

N0 I have not? There's an over temperature switch and a 1988 evinrude? Also I did not see what that second coil would be from the illustration mine did not have a second and they also don't show what it is coming off that coil

 

[racerone]

Some have an optional battery charging coil under the flywheel.----There is no need to use a drill when testing for spark.

 

[2Stroken]

Some have an optional battery charging coil under the flywheel.----There is no need to use a drill when testing for spark.

Mine just has one coil and One sensor both have been replaced and tested, I am so lost I just don't know what to do so as soon as my multimeter gets here I was going to start at the top and work my way down and check every single wire and every single plug till I find out what's causing it

 

[Johnny Ringo !]

Yes I agree it is either that or a short on a ground wire or something like that but I can't see I do need to get a multimeter I just don't have one and I was hoping somebody had ran into a similar problem. I guess I can just buy a new coil for up on the flywheel because so far I haven't had to buy anything I've just been using parts that I already had that I know are good and tested to cross off the other parts being bad or not. So I guess I could throw 30 or 40 bucks at OMC coil hopefully it remedies it I'm tired of swapping Parts on this thing LOL thanks a lot for all your answers guys hopefully I find a way to get this thing firing soon

I am having about the same problem, but with a much older 25 HP a 1972 that has both a tiller and remote wiring with a switch that has no key. It has great compression and it is electric start. I even had to put a positive wire to the starter's hot wire to get it to spin and that's how I tested the compression, about 110 in both cylinders.

 

[Johnny Ringo !]

Possibly your new parts are defective and a broken wire can be time consuming to find.

Take a break and when your tester arrives trouble shoot from the top until you find the culprit.

a short or bare wire grounding something can be a nightmare!

 

[ct1762@gmail.com]

it shouldnt take you more than 10 minutes with a DVA tester, coil extenders and a stevens st-77 load adapter to pinpoint exactly whats at fault! at the bare minimum a DVA adapter will do the job by process of elimination. make sure your pack is grounded properly, ditto for ignition coils. stop switch disconnected to rule it out too.