oh yeah or better yet people have one bank of carbs slightly open and the others shut lol get them carbs in sync lol.

Yep, thats another one of my pet peeves. It's not like it is that hard to break out the book and set the marks, but if your supposed to be a JOHNNY-RUDE guy you should know how to do it. It always amazes me what some of these guys down here do to these engines, and then wonder why they start like crap, or won't idle without coughin and smokin. Not to mention you get the people that set the timing to 14 degrees and then tell you the engine is wore out and needs rebuilt. Then they charge you $2K and set the timing back where it should be. I've seen some pretty shady things down here in the sunshine state.

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Good luck with the new work, ah I mean boat Ferm. Seems like everyone I ever got myself had an issue or three to take care of.
Part of their charm you know:bsflag:

Ok here we go. She aint purdy like LUMBERS, but she'll work for me.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...RA-SPORTS1.jpg
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One of the previous owners decided to cut the fuel tank cover right at the console:bat:.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...RA-SPORTS2.jpg
And it lives. I'm still working some ghosts out tof the machine, but hopefully all will be well soon.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...RA-SPORTS7.jpg

looks pretty good bud:clap:

Well I hope i got the last bugs figured out on the engine now. My new power pack will be in in the morning. It would be my luck to have a bad stator and power pack at the same time. I couldn't get all six to fire on start-up, and the quikstart wouldn't activate. So after testing the stator again to verify it was good, I finally put the fact that it has a newer pack on it already out of my head and tested the pack. Sure enough it is shot. I was getting 91 and 97 volts before from my stator, so figured that's why I didn't have good fire. I have 150 now, and am still only getting 80-90 on 5 of the pugs, but 125 to #1. I hope the pack fix's the other engine problems, not being able to use my new toy is pissing me off:cen:. Not to mention that all of this just adds fuel to the fire regarding the guy that sold me the boat and said it was turn key:bat:.

nope not the stator. lol you did as others spent extra money that motor has sat. you just needed to disconnect the timing /trigger from the advance rod, take the plugs out, have someone turn it over and you work the timing base back and forth very fast. you will see the plugs all start to fire. i've had several and seen several V6 usually motors do that. very common issue and everyone buys a new stator then power pack then a crank trigger lol only needed to work the one they had lol. good luck. running the motor will not fix it , you must work that trigger back and forth to fix it.

nice lookin rig there ferm, if ya need a hand scrubbin her up i'll be down next flight outta atlantic city.......let me know

It was firing fine once it was running, it was getting it to run. Before stator replacement I had 0 volts on the QUIKSTART/SLOW coil, and 91 and 95 on the charge coils with the pack disconnected. I now have 200 volts coming out of the charge coils, And 18 out of the QUIKSTART/SLOW coil. So it did need the stator, but unfortunately the power pack still wouldn't go into QUIKSTART mode, and would only ocasionally fire all of the plugs on start-up. I pulled the pick-up coil off and made sure all was well with it before replacing anything, it was just bad luck I guess:cen:.