Re: two big problems
David Wene--electrical engineer?
I know that the part number you have is a rectifier but the picture you have shown is clearly a voltage regulater, I should also have enough brains to not get involved in this post but I think it brings many good points to the site. First I give you a couple of suggestions to your problem, you need to know if the system is back feeding the switch box with voltage as it will kill the ign system-if you have voltage unplug the wiring harness to see if the short is in the engine harness or boat harness--no voltage check for a short in the kill system with a OHM meter-shorted unplug the harness to see which harness it is in. Either problem will come from a shorted wire or bad switch. The thing that needs to be done is to establish which problem you have and which harness or switch it is in. Now to the real problem I see with this thread in reading it, anyone who has been here very long has seen a dropping off of anwsers by experinced mechanics and I could be wrong about this I can only speak for myself of the anwsers you have gotten only one, I beleive came from a experinced marine serviceman phatmanmike and he was only trying to tell you the proper way to repair your engine as a engineer you should know if Mercury thought they could get by with a cheaper part they certainly would have! As professionals we must do repairs in a safe and professional way and wonder why anyone would do differantly, there are a alot of ways to save a Buck but the easiest is to do the job right the first time and if you can't the take it to a proffessional and get it repaired properly. When given good free advise as mike gave you don't belittle it us it. That is exactty why posts by professional mechanics are falling of on this site and being replace with wanabees
GOOD and CHEAP are not the same word--Bob
