Coil eater

lightwood38

Seaman
Joined
Sep 25, 2009
Messages
55
I have a 1977 70hp Evinrude that has done 2 coils in the 3 times I have taken it out. Just bad luck or would somthing else be overloading the coils?
 

14ftgrumman

Chief Petty Officer
Joined
Jul 19, 2008
Messages
416
Re: Coil eater

Check your grounds. Electricity has to come and go. If grounds are bad, it kinda gangs up on the last thing it goes thru.

Circuit is not being completed.

You should see the mess it makes when someone leaves the ground strap off of the old GM HEI distributors when they change out the ign. coil in the dist. cap. Evefrything melts down into a black plastic lump.
 
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