don't know how to test coils but i changed the ones that wasn't getting spark to the area of the one getting spark and they are getting a good spark so coils are good i just have to keep looking for the problem lol
the cdi might be the power pack i might of got the name wrong i was told it was a cdi when i bought it from boat shop its a round thing with three wires coming from it the round part is sized of a quarter mind you i only worked on inboards and never seen it on a inboard and on the starter idk i...
hope i'm in the right place my friend has a Evinrude 85 hp outboard i checked everything we even replace cdi and power pack all wires are cleaned and battery is brand new the motor turns over fast the coils have been replaced at this point i'm at a crossroads i don't know what else could be...
ok well thanks for the info i was getting around 146-147ish psi and sorry for not responding sooner been busy and i did the distributer aligning before reading this and that was it
ok it has all of them the distributor was out and was line back up and put back in otherwise it wouldnt go back on didn't check the timing ill look into that today don't have a compressor reading but did check compression by hand don't know if this helps but it was strong enough to almost push...
so finally got my boat free and everything but together the motor turns over but wont start it just cranks and cranks doesn't fire i had a friend look in carb idk if when i turn key over is the fuel should be going into the carb of not but there was no fuel injected into it so i had a electric...
sorry for the late reply wanted to make sure this solution worked a friend of mine told me to do one part gun oil 3 parts wd40 penetrate i do it and the motor is free i cleaned it put it back together and now its turning over thank you all so much for lending me a helping hand and giving me some...
i did i forgot to look for firing order but i markers the with whiteout as to what piston got the what cylinder like 1-1 2-2 3-3 4-4 so on it should work
got the final pistol out inspected that and the arms that dont look morphed or rusted the rings look fine too its the top parts on the cylinder walls that are rusted is there i cheaper way to get rid of the rust everything but rust on 3 cylinders the top parts of cylinders are rusted i guess i'm...
its a inboard 260 mercruiser v8 and its locked tight i may have to hammer out the pistol heads and sand blast the block any ideas? please tell me i'm not wrong and i can treat it like a car motor?
ok ill do that when i'm done decided to go the hard way and pull everything off down to the heads good thing to because on off chance it turned i probably would of messed things up worse the the block isn't crack have got the heads out yet but they aint bent around the heads just got to check...
