That sounds super ideal, will try in the morning, I'm so messed up right now Have to take wife in for more tests getting old sucks .... THANKS Okie (Dallas)
OK thats what I keep replacing, I can put a new one on and it runs on both cyl;s till I put on a timing light and then the top cyl go's dead- no spark remove the light and still have lost the top cyl. Same thing with the 256.oo dollar one from the dealer or the 28.00 from ebay, Can an inductive...
Got another rectifier today but am not going to install until I find out more. I have the flywheel off and the trigger and stator on the work bench. I need to find how to check them. Here are some pic's these are some of the rectifiers that I have ruined, there was another but the dealer kept...
took off the flywheel and trigger today the flywheel looks fine the keyway is good, the trigger has 3 wires that look ok has 2 other wires that are cut off even with the place where they come out of the trigger- yellow wires no apperant use will put back together in a little bit running in and...
I haven't returned to that dealer I'm just trying anything myself. And may I say a big THANK YOU for your help. Could not try anything today the missus is feeling bad
The first time I took it to boat shop and they put in a new rectifier, and coil when I got home and it was idling rough and dying so I checked the carb and all seemed ok closed and the roller was just touching put the light on it and it was about 4-6 ATDC moved the spark advance to about TDC...
I have the light connected correctly neg and pos correct and signal lead to the #1 plug with the arrow on the plug side. I cannot send a picture until my daughter gets home. I understand the black box above the reg is a rev limiter I have not removed it or anything. Battery is fully charged. I...
No sir I am hooking up the timing light to the #1 top cyl it is a 2 cyl engine and I just cannot figure out why the rectifier go's bad as soon as I get the timing mark, it reads 4 ATDC I turn it off to make adjust and when I restart the engine the light will flash once or twice then go out the...
First off THANKS for allowing me to join your forum!! I hope I can help a little on older merc stuff
Have a 40 hp mercury tracker and have installed 2 regulator & rectifier 6wire units on this engine and they start and run until I hook up timing light and it flashes a few times then i turn it...
