Over the last 2 weeks I have posted that my drive was skipping. I have since removed it seperated it and checked everything I could to no obvious cause. Put it all back together again. <br /><br />It:<br /><br />Runs mint on the hose, and on the lake at idle and low RPM - under 1500. After that it skips, no bang, the motor and O/D jump like a skip. I changed the plugs last night (after reading Don S. say that the fogging oi isn't good for the plugs). Started cleaner but problem still exists. I had removed them and sanded them by hand to clean them up before.<br /><br />I pulled the dist cap and scraped the contacts as they were a bit dirty, and the tip of the rotor where it connects to the coil wire post. This made it run worse. It's skipping all over the place now. <br /><br />You could say I narrowed it down to an engine miss at this point. I stopped by the local parts store and they will have a cap and rotor in for me in the morning. I have no dwell meter so I'm not going to do points unless this solves the problem. (I'll do them then as it is obvious this boat hasn't seen a tune up in a bit).<br /><br />My question is, does it sound right that an old cap could cause this type of problem? If so, what else do you recommend looking at / replacing while I'm here. I really want to get back out as I have missed 2-3 weeks from this already. Thanks to all of you that have helped. I have learned a great deal, and know that I still know nada!
