I fought what I thought was a fuel/carb problem for a while and I think I have found my problem elsewhere.
What it would do is run great for about half an hour and then start running like crap or not all.
1979 OMC 260/800 mallory distibutor.
Was going through the distributor and found that one of the springed advance weights had fallen apart. the guide pin that was pressed into the weight fell out and was rattling around in the distributor.
I thought about rebuilding it but decided to just upgrade to electronic. The distributor is 30 years old and it has a few other probs.
So what is going on this boat is the YLM624AV. I talked with the mallory people and know what to do, I think, with the resistance wire and the coil.
My question boils down to the shift assist module. Becasue during my tests I had figured that my old one was non functional I bought a new one and put it on. It is functional now. Switches work and the module works.
It's the CDI 123-9898P.
Can someone tell me if I need to do the diode and resistor mod to this or is it already good for that. I think the P means that it's good for a pertronix upgrade. This Mallory distributor that is going on is also a magnetic breakerless.
Something tells me that I should leave the CDI module alone and not put diodes and resitors in it.
What do you all think?
What it would do is run great for about half an hour and then start running like crap or not all.
1979 OMC 260/800 mallory distibutor.
Was going through the distributor and found that one of the springed advance weights had fallen apart. the guide pin that was pressed into the weight fell out and was rattling around in the distributor.
I thought about rebuilding it but decided to just upgrade to electronic. The distributor is 30 years old and it has a few other probs.
So what is going on this boat is the YLM624AV. I talked with the mallory people and know what to do, I think, with the resistance wire and the coil.
My question boils down to the shift assist module. Becasue during my tests I had figured that my old one was non functional I bought a new one and put it on. It is functional now. Switches work and the module works.
It's the CDI 123-9898P.
Can someone tell me if I need to do the diode and resistor mod to this or is it already good for that. I think the P means that it's good for a pertronix upgrade. This Mallory distributor that is going on is also a magnetic breakerless.
Something tells me that I should leave the CDI module alone and not put diodes and resitors in it.
What do you all think?