can you walk a rookie through this ?????

[79ESKIBOT22]

before i get the normal " buy a manual" i have one on the way but am trying to get this thing in the water a.s.a.p.....<br /><br />i have a 1971 100 esl ....have benn told it has points and condenser and that it does not .....so let me tell you what i see when the fly wheel comes off and maybe you can tell me what to look for ......<br /><br />ok when the fly wheel is off i see what i think is the stator ..( a light blue color with four plug wires and one plug wire to the top off the motor.....after the stator comes off there is a black cup (like i rotor) with a metal ring at the bottom of it .....after that comes off i see the top off the crank and plate with some wires on it the wires look like they connect to two little "j" hooks that one touches the crank and the other is just off it ....and when that comes off there is nothing else .....<br /><br />there is no spark to the motor ....can any one tell me if there are points and if so what am i looking for ...........help please ....i am not a outboard guru but can take directions pretty well ......

 

[carmangary1]

Re: can you walk a rookie through this ?????

Sounds like the J hooks you describe are points. If they cause the contacts to open and close as you rotate the crankshaft then they are points.

 

[mrc]

Re: can you walk a rookie through this ?????

The thing with the four plug wires is the<br />distributer cap.<br /><br />Before you can take that off, you had to remove a<br />two screws which bind a ring around the distributer<br />cap. This ring is the stator, it has a number of<br />coils of wire with two wires leading out from under<br />the flywheel.<br /><br />The round black thing under the distributer cap<br />is the rotor. It is keyed into a notch on the <br />crankshaft.<br /><br />Under the roter is the points. There are two sets<br />of points on this motor which are driven by <br />bulges in the crankshaft. (two points, two bulges<br />results in four closes of the point wires per<br />rotation of the flywheel.<br /><br />With no spark at all on any of the wires, there<br />is three suspects...<br /><br />1) Wireing, verify that amplifier (big black box<br />on back of motor (possibly silver). Has power<br />when the ignition is on. Verify that the points <br />are indeed closing 4 times per rotation. etc<br /><br />2) Coil. There is only one on this motor, verify<br />that it isn't open and that the big black wire from<br />the coil to the rotor isn't open.<br /><br />3) Amplifier....Yuck, Joe Reeves has posted numerous time how to test these Battery Capacitive<br />ignition boxes with light bulb, search for it on<br />this site. Expensive to replace.<br /><br />Good luck,<br />Mike