fishinwrench

Who was it (someone important that knows the meaning of life I think) that said ...."Guys fish all their lives never realizing that it's not the fish they are after" ?

What is the Model# on the motor? No changes on the 90/60 jet since 2016, and none planned for 2020 either. Ya know why? Cuz they GOT IT RIGHT and haven't had to redo everything because of repeated failures ! 😁👍. Unlike that OTHER outboard manufacturer that everyone loves so much.

Looks like it's an epidimic, look at what's on the list today. No fire. Testing indicated no voltage from the timer base.... swapped that out, then no output from the Ppack on #1..... swapped that out, now we have excessive charging system voltage (+15v) so I guess we'll swap a rectifier/regulator tomorrow and see how much more of my customers money we can spend. Good grief! What is it with these good ol' die-hard 3 cylinders all of a sudden? 🤔

Yeah but you don't need a special chair to do that. Just step off the deck and put your butt there....and while you're at it fix that nick in your line that you've been ignoring for 20 minutes. 😊

Well......Let's get busy on the interior ! 🙂

Wanna do a carpet job? 😁

Hell yes! Nice job!

Oh well 😏 The only thing worse than fishing while sitting down is having a front deck shaped like a horse shoe because a friggin seat is in the way. 🙄

First thing I'm gonna do if I ever fish with you is yank that seat pedastal out of the floor and throw it in the lake. 😅

You're overgunned with that .380, you ain't never gonna have to kill anybody. This is what you need 😊 It will kill the snake and not hurt your outboard.

We've already cheated and lied. The only thing we haven't tried is bending that 60 over the transom and stretching her exhaust port. Toss me the lube, I ain't ashamed to try it. 😜

Disappointed that we didn't bump into you fellas 😕 Some old friends came down from my home town and we spent Friday on the river and Saturday in the park. I stayed up til 2:am tying enough black foam beetles for all of us because I figured that would be the most fun in the park, but none of us could get a single fish to rise on a beetle. Spent most of the day at the highbank hole away from the crowd and caught a piddly amount of dinks on nymphs, leeches, and scuds. Didn't seem to be very many fish in that area on Saturday, but there wasn't any room for us to fish together anywhere else. Didn't do very well at the river either, 3 ugly little beat up rainbows was all I could get stuck, and my buddies blanked. We didn't take any food Saturday and I was bummed that the Hillbilly burger and the restaurant in the park was both Closed for business, so all we could find to eat was Vienna sausages and chips from Fort Bennett. 😫 Also was pissed that a rather mildly jacked up 4x4 can't even get under the stupid "gate" at the wooden bridge. I mean WTF? Did notice that the swimming pool was up and running though. 🙄 It all just makes me miss the BSSP of years ago. The "improvements" have not improved ANYTHING in my opinion. Sad.

Why do they always ignore the fact that the problem is OVERPOPULATION ? There are just too darn many boats on the water at once.....But they are so freakin' greedy that they purposely omit that as a possibility and refuse to report it. Everything is political and about the dollar.

Hmmm. Well the only thing connecting the Ppack to the charge coils/rectifier circuit is the black/yellow kill wire that you disconnected and tested for parasitic voltage ......and the motor still died with it disconnected, yet runs fine with the charge coils isolated. I'm thinking the Ppack is fine, but stator, or all those rectifiers you tried (highly unlikely) is bad. But I guess we'll see. Let me know cuz I wanna learn too. 😊

If it isn't the stator I'll be floored. Are you sure that your old one was bad?

If you are having trouble seeing, and being seen, then common sense says you need more lights. No?

You have taken a fuel sample to ensure there's no water in it, right? Pull the plugs and see if there is any sign of water or fuel/oil flooding on them. A bad head gasket can wash a spark plug or two and stop them from firing. A stuck carb float, bad fuel pump, or carbs with improper float level settings can do that also. You can use a timing light to verify that loss of ignition voltage is what is causing the problem.

Try CDI's Tech Support and see what they say. They might be willing to send you a new stator and rectifier without hitting your boys wallet again.

Sometimes the best "boat positioning" requires being OUT OF the boat. 😊

Most are good, but....the problem with a bad (or improperly trained) LEO is that their co-workers and supervisors will denounce their parents and their religion before they will DO THE RIGHT THING. And IMO that makes them all bad. But I understand, because as a LEO you either go along/play along.....or you loose your job and have no future in "law enforcement". MoCarp, I bet your buddy's son knows a dirty or enept co-worker or three and does nothing to stop them from negatively effecting citizens, other than maybe he won't sit at a table with them.

Well, I'm not very confident in the bad pack theory to be honest, because that doesn't explain it not dying when the charge coils are disconnected. I'm actually thinking that a bad stator is effecting the pack output. But I really don't know. I had a somewhat similar ordeal on a 2 cylinder 35hp once that I had to replace the stator, rectifier, and the Ppack to cure it, and I never did know (or figure out) which of the 3 components were truly bad because they all tested good, but when hooked up together produced erratic fire on THAT motor. I kept them and used those parts SUCCESSFULLY and SEPARATELY on other motors without any issue whatsoever. Those were OEM components though. CDI stuff is good, I usually prefer them to OEM, especially on Mercury's, but maybe.....just maybe...... ya know 😏

I think that (the difference) has to do with the Quik-start and/or SLOW function that was added to the power packs after '87

Sounds like the Mennonite club isn't having any trouble catching good fish. Wonder what makes them so awesome?

True! And I haven't been out to confirm....but when it is backwatering in the Gravois the bite is typically pretty tough. So my advice is: If you aren't getting bit where you think you should then run out of the Gravois and fish closer to the dam.

If it is ignition failure then it just has to show up on a DVA test. You can pretty much rule out the trigger, but you can't rule out the rectifier, stator, or power pack. I would start by hooking up the peak reading voltmeter to the ignition primary leads (orange) with peircing probes and see if voltage falls off before it dies. If it does then hook up to the stator (brown and brown/yellow....or whatever CDI uses) and see if voltage falls there too. If it does then you have a stator problem. If it doesn't then you have a power pack problem. Pull that flywheel and check to be sure that all magnets are in place solid and that none are cracked. If it stays running when you terminate the rectifier then it just has to be either the rectifier or stator. And since you've tried numerous good rectifiers then bygod it just has to be a bad stator. I never go by stator resistance tests....but maybe this is the time to use them. The stator charge coils could possibly be failing after the stator warms up.