This is a great site and has been lots of help. But here's my problem:
I'm getting no spark in my 1977 55hp Evinrude. I bought this motor off a guy (preacher, so hopefully he wasn't bsing me), who said the only problem he had was flooding. He would run for awhile then take the motor out of gear and when putting it back into gear it would flood and be hard to start.
I had this motor running alright last fall and stored it for winter. This spring I put in a new impeller and rebuilt the carbs and rebuilt the starter. I had it running in a tub in my driveway after all that and it seemed to run good. Started right up after the new starter and I was going to run it on a lake. I get to the lake and it won't start at all, no firing. I tried changing the plugs on the lake to no avail. Take it home and start diagnosing, to get to no spark. It is getting gas and the gas is new and has stabilizer in it from a good gas station.
So I go through part of the seloc troubleshooting part and get to the timer base and sensor assembly part and it seems like that is the problem.
Is this common or are there other ideas? I don't want to change parts without knowing for sure or if that might not be what it is. I disconnected the kill wire and no spark, there in throught the harness, most of the other tests I did seemed fine. I will go through the rest of the tests tonight.
I'm getting no spark in my 1977 55hp Evinrude. I bought this motor off a guy (preacher, so hopefully he wasn't bsing me), who said the only problem he had was flooding. He would run for awhile then take the motor out of gear and when putting it back into gear it would flood and be hard to start.
I had this motor running alright last fall and stored it for winter. This spring I put in a new impeller and rebuilt the carbs and rebuilt the starter. I had it running in a tub in my driveway after all that and it seemed to run good. Started right up after the new starter and I was going to run it on a lake. I get to the lake and it won't start at all, no firing. I tried changing the plugs on the lake to no avail. Take it home and start diagnosing, to get to no spark. It is getting gas and the gas is new and has stabilizer in it from a good gas station.
So I go through part of the seloc troubleshooting part and get to the timer base and sensor assembly part and it seems like that is the problem.
Is this common or are there other ideas? I don't want to change parts without knowing for sure or if that might not be what it is. I disconnected the kill wire and no spark, there in throught the harness, most of the other tests I did seemed fine. I will go through the rest of the tests tonight.
