Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

Hopefully he's looking for his camera.
Hey AIR, stop leaving all that fishing line on my wrecks. ;D

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

well the first thing I did was take the fuel filter off of her last night to see if I had any water in the fuel........and the answer is NO. there was nothing in the filter but gas. and some sediment.

So since I had gas in the bilge. I got rid of it and decided to let the fumes work there way out before I tried any electrical things. So tonight I will start with the electrical.

thanks and I will keep you posted. ;D

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

Sounds like a Plan. Good luck. ;)

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

Wow, sounds like my Father's Day, except for the tow.

In another sign of too soon oldt, too late schmart I joined BOATUS last week and bought their towing insurance which worked like a charm, enabling me to putt-putt back to the dock a 2 knots in the pouring rain.

I went through the whole fuel, spark, compression thing too. It's no fun and you can't help thinking the worst but don't overlook the simple things.

Hope you figure it out.

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

Have you tryed the eaither thing yet?? Make sure its not gas before you start messing with the rest.

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

Well Boys,

went home and sprayed the carb with a shot of ether, turned the key and nothing......

took the distributor cap off and realized the last time I did the points, I squashed the condesor wire in the cap. So I pulled it off and pulled off the coil and went to advance auto. got the new parts, and put them on and

SHE FIRED RIGHT UP, YAYYYYY!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

My only question is....advance sold me a new resistor, and for the life of me my buddy and I could not find the original resistor. anyone know where it is??

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

thanks for all your advice and suggestions. she goes back in the water tomorrow night..... ::) ;D ;)

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

Glad you got her back up and running. *;) *I've not had an I/O for a while now. *The resisiotor may not be used on all models. *I ca't remember. *I thought it went inline between the dist and the coil?, but that just doesn't sound right to me?


Edit to add...

Check this link.
http://www.outboardrepairs.com/topics/004666.html
*The resistor goes between the condensor and coil + to drop the voltage to around 9v so you don't cook your ditstributors innards. * ;D

Sorry, I'm no help on the resisitor...

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

do you mean resitor or condensor? Mercruiser uses a resistor wire feeding voltage to the coil, if you separate the wiring harness, you'll find a small hard wire about two feet back from the coil( thats the inline resistor). You won't need the resistor that the parts store sold you. Do yourself a favor, install a pertronix electronic conversion, you wont be sorry. I've installed 100's of them, only had one fail due to low resistance in the coil( all the oil in the coil ran out thru the hole rusted in the bottom). If you decide to install one, open up the harness till you find the resiistor and cut it out, when they get old, they start to do weird things and cause strange ignition problems

Re: Not a great Father's Day......HELP PLEASE
 

good new chris glad to see ur goin back in the water ;D