No spark

[MASTER Brian]

Re: No spark

jtexas, thanks for that reply.

I actually started a new thread, because I had too many people jumping back to the broken plug thing and I thought the spark issue might keep people who know about the stator/rectifier/regulator from stopping in.

Here is the new link...http://forums.iboats.com/bbBoard.cgi?a=viewthread;fid=28;gtid=1161644

I'll address the charge coil part of your post there if that's ok. As for the spark, after running the boat, I don't think that's an issue. It didn't miss a beat. I tried some resistance tests on a few coil packs last night and they were fairly close to being within specs. They may be issues later, but for now I think they are ok. The link and sync was because I recently rebuilt this PH and things occasionally get out of whack, so I run through the whole process again to re-check.

 

[KYHunter2]

Re: No spark

If your readings when you tested rect. were accurate they indicate a bad rect.

As I said zero one way infinity the other , on both wires.

You can still test stator , as I said in previous post .

The procedure is test rect. even if test indicates bad rect., then stator, if stator is ok , change rect/reg.

KYHunter

 

[KYHunter2]

Re: No spark

If you performed the ammeter test correctly, and tested battery for the 14.5 volts , you'd know the answer to these questions.

KYHunter

 

[MASTER Brian]

Re: No spark

KY,
I guess I don't see a reason to spend the evening driving to and from the lake and another $20 in gas to do an ammeter test. You and others have said if the ohms I got were accurate then the rect. is bad. Also, my volt meter on fish finder appears fairly accurate and it never showed a charge last trim out. Nothing has changed except a mostly charged battery.

Also, judging from the ohm test on the stator, it's bad as well. Maybe one or the other would last a while, but it's not worth $200-$300, to fry a $200-$300 part, not to mention possibly get left stranded on the lake with a 1 year old. I bit the bullet and ordered both rect and stator.

Hopefully, not a stupid thing, but time is money and gas back and fourth to the lake adds up fast.

I appreciate all the help on this, my parts should be here Friday and I'll post the results after the weekend.

 

[KYHunter2]

Re: No spark

I hope you get it corrected.

Its just seems odd that , everything was operating fine before rebuild .

And then , all these odd problems.

I wasn't saying to do the ammeter test now , but , that when you asked awhile back about doing it.

You tried , but switched to other procedures , when it didn't work .

My point is , that if you would have stayed with the procedure, and figured out, how to properly perform test.

Your problem would have been diagnosed sooner.

Good - Luck,

KYHunter

 

[MASTER Brian]

Re: No spark

You are probably correct.

It bugs me that I let some of the stuff like electrical issues intimidate me, when I'm not afraid to tear into a motor. The basics like ohms and volts don't bother me, but some of the other things like CD volt meters and such do. I think I understand the ammeter a bit better now, so thanks for explaining that a bit.

I'm not certain these issues weren't there before the rebuild and that I just didn't notice them. I've only had this boat 6 months and it's been down about 3 now. The tach always seemed funny, but didn't know what to look for until I started talking to people after it went down. I just figured it was a chewed up wire, the boat had plenty of them.

As for the voltage thing, the boats always started fine, so I had no reason to suspect it until I hooked up the fish finder. Even the last time out, it ran perfect with these issues. Right now they only seem not to be charging the battery, but who knows when that will change.

Right before it went down, I noticed a loss of power, then it ran, then loss of power, then it ran, then it died. I can't help but wonder if these parts being faulty didn't play some role in the loss. It was a stuck ring that caused the break-down, but is it possible it miss-fired and that was just enough to cause the ring to pop loose and hit the port.... Even if it is not, it was just a matter of time, unless I had known about the decarbing, which I didn't.

Thanks for your well wishes and let's hope these parts solve the charging issues. If not there isn't much left to replace at this point....:^

 

[MASTER Brian]

Re: No spark

Well, I changed both the rect/reg and the stator. My tach seems much better and my volts increase as motor revs. All seems good, thanks!!