Re: Stator Resistance Check. 1990 Force 50. Engine wouldn't start. No spark at spark plugs. Removed stator from engine. Resistance check made on workbench. According to Seloc Force Outboards 1984-99 Repair Manual, The resistance is supposed to be 500-1000 ohms. Trouble is the manual didn't specify how to make this check. I didn't know if the test was to be made between two wires or one wire and metal ground of the stator. There were six wires present on the stator. I tried every combination of checks between two wires and checked between each wire and metal ground of the stator. I kept getting an infinite amount of resistance on all the checks made.
Bought a used stator on ebay for $125. After watching a few YouTube videos, I found out there were two resistance checks to make. One between each set of the three paired wires. I still didn't know which color of wires were considered a pair. The ebay stator gave the following readings: with one of the ohmmeter probes touching the metal terminal of the brown wire with a blue stripe (marked #1) and the other probe touching the metal terminal of the brown wire with a yellow stripe (marked #2), the reading was 750 ohms. Then with one of the ohmmeter probes touching the metal terminal of the brown wire with a blue stripe and a black stripe (marked #3) and the other probe touching the metal terminal of the brown wire with a yellow stripe and a black stripe (marked #4), the reading was 750 ohms.
On the ebay stator the remaining two wires were both yellow and unmarked. The resistance between these two was 1 ohm. I rechecked the resistance between the two yellow wires of the bad stator, it also read 1 ohm. I must have missed that on my first test of the bad stator when I went through all the possible combinations.
Tested each individual wire of the six with stator metal ground and each read infinite resistance.
Installed ebay stator on engine and it fired up and ran. Hope this helps somebody.
