Here is a little back story of what happened. over about 3 runs on the boat my idle started to increase and I stopped running it when the idle jumped really bad. its idling at about 2400rpm. and I'm looking for a vacuum leak, but to no avail so i turned to possible timing issue. im new to boats but i have a general knowledge of mechanics. i pulled off my flywheel and looked at the stater and timing pickup and nothing seemed to be out of place. then i turned the flywheel over and saw this little guy (pictured below) who looks like it used to be glued to the flywheel and is part of the timing pickup. could this have moved? so i grabbed it and gently gave it a twist and it just turned and came right off. so should this little magnet ring do this? and how should i go about fixing it? and is the crack going to affect anything?
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