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So it turned out the opposite. The larger rectifier provided a fine tach output, but I didn't get any charging voltage. Though I'm not ready to blame the rectifier for that yet as even borrowing my buddies know good 3 wire also didn't provide any charging voltage. what should I see for...

Ah well the tach is most important anyway. I would have figured the grey wire off the square one was tach? Seeing as it was grey. I might try it out. Looks like id have to add a key on power wire back to my little bus bar. I have one of the little 3 wire ones on the way.

This is the one I have off the parts engine.

So my outboard is a 1978 Johnson 140. Came with the smaller standard rectifier. Well in my figuring out the tach issue I found my rectifier basically exploded. I swapped on one from my buddies 90 and it did fix the tach, but when running I didnt see much if any charging voltage? And if I...

I have some heads that came off the parts 140. One head is good and the other has damage from a ring getting broken and beat up. So I doubt I can run that one.

Well id have the port timing and the exhaust. but without the higher compression heads I'm not really sure where the engine lands power wise.

This one cant trim high enough to venitlate. Like I say it'll definitely throw a decent rooster tail trimmed up, but I never feel the prop ventilate/cavitate. And It definitely trims up enough to make a good difference when on plane cause i can feel it lift the bow when trimming up, but not...

I originally had the 1 3/8 carbs. Original to the 1978. And i just could not get them to act right. Very poor off-idle bogging no matter how many times i went through them. Once you finally managed to get it up into rpm it ran strong. I swapped on the 1983-84 140hp carbs and those being the 1...

Well like I say I doubt the engine is making what its supposed to given the smaller carbs and different heads. I assume the jackplate was likey on there do to a bigger outboard being on their at some point that would achieve those speeds. I don't think its a hook hull? Id have to check...

So info. Boat is a 1990 Cajun paul Elias edition. 18' 6" long × 88" beam. Everything i find shows its a 1,200 lb bare boat. The boat appears very dry always kept under cover as far as I can tell and doesn't leak so i don't believe theres any water logging going on. Its got 2 group 27 lead acid...

So just an update. The motor was never quite getting full throttle. The bracket responsible for holding the throttle linkages and by that i mean the vertical shaft that meshes gears with the twist throttle. Was loose on the block. Screws loose and was missing one all together. I didn't notice...

So I reconnected the positive wire for the rectifier. Normally it joins into the engine harness. Into the red wire that feeds the trigger box. A constant 12v. Instead of connecting it to the harness there like the factory was. I ran the 12v from the rectifier to the stud on the starter...

So I replaced that wire however I didn't wire it into the harness constant 12. I ran the wire from the back of the regulator to the big lead coming into the starter solenoid. That should be all right ?

Gotcha. So disconnect the stator. I haven't ran it yet since repairing the wiring. I really don't feel like pulling the fly wheel to get at that stator, but I might try pulling the wires back and just putting some heat shrink on them and replacing that charge wire back into the harness. See...

Well the crappy wiring finally bit me. All I did before it was put some liquid electrical tape on the stuff and let it go. Took it out today and twice it just died on me and wouldn't restart. Both times it was spark. Floated it back on the trailer and brought it home. I put this off thinking I...