power pack

Tommy12

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Is ther any way to test a power pack? It gets fire through it, via a test light, but there is no spark to the plug wires. the only thing in between is individual coil packs. Surely not all of them are bad at one time are they?
 

ebrich2

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Re: power pack

i just went thru the same thing with my v6, to make a long story short my problem turned out to be three cylinders on one side not fireing, it was one power pack but i went ahead and replaced both.

jonesg is right, we need more info
 

Grassi25

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Mar 9, 2011
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Re: power pack

Possibly your kill switch disconnected or, a safety feature from the vro low oil or air in you oil line. Or as stated above.
 

Tommy12

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Re: power pack

Jonesg, Hey I ohmed out the stator on both sides and they seemed to be within range (around .550 ohms with my meter on the 2k scale). And I isolated the kill switch and ignition switch circuit by unplugging the main harness and hooking my battery straight to the starter with jumper cables and did not get fire at any of the plugs. So I feel I've narrowed it down to the power packs. I may order that adapter and check them but I will have to figure out how to do the test. As for the year and model #, I'm still having trouble finding it. And trust me, I've looked everywhere : flywheel, freezeplugs, transom mount, cylinder assemble, heads, and I even tried to cross reference the jet by calling the jet company giving them the part number to the jet! To no avail. Still working on it but I think its b/tween a 80 and an 84. 175hp Johnson. Is it possible after the test I described that it still could be the stator? Thanks for your advice
 

jonesg

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Re: power pack

Try getting serial numbers off components such as power pack and flywheel, then look the part numbers up on evinrude.com.
 
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