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    ‘75 or ‘76 Mercury 650 three banger spark issue

    Thanks Chris, I was poking around online for the distributor parts…not easy to find anymore, and worth a mint. But testing those old wires would be a logical next step in this saga. I’m wondering why it ran so well before the retrofit tho…would the new coil be so much more powerful that it is...
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    ‘75 or ‘76 Mercury 650 three banger spark issue

    Hello folks, first time posting here. I just replaced the OEM switch box and coil on my old Merc with the CDI Electronics unit. The boat ran before the swap, but once it got good and warm, it would stop running and wouldn’t start again until ice cold. I diagnosed no spark when hot-which led me...
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