Well, new to me Ranger Fish & Play w/ a 76 1500 Mercury outboard. Ran good on muffs. Anyone following my posts knows I did some re-wiring on the boat, changed lower unit lube, spark plugs, & wires.
Today was supposed to be a good day, first time on the water with my new, old boat. Get it launched easily, here it goes, turn the key. She fires on the first attempt, fast idle lever up, running a bit rough (cold natured).
I let it run for 15-20 seconds, put it in reverse, throttle a bit and she dies.
It started acting like the timing was off when trying to restart, as it would crank, then hang but it was trying to start...now the bad news.....
pulled cowling off, didn't see any issues, pulled distributor cap off, NO!!!!!!!!!!!
My rotor is shattered !!!!!!!!!! WTF ???
Now, I know these are non-removable and pricy to replace. My question is this...
I've had this running before I hit the water. What could be the reason it shattered??? old age and coincidently let loose?
I did have the cap off to change the plug wires and also had to unbolt the linkange arm ????? to get access but I never touched the rotor.
I thought I was careful putting everything back together and like I said, it even started first attempt in the water and ran for around 15 seconds.
Again, it died when I put it in reverse. Is there any way the linkage somehow was binding to shatter my rotor? I know what I have to do to replace the rotor but I don't want to break another one...provided I can even find another one.................... Any ideas ???????????????????
Today was supposed to be a good day, first time on the water with my new, old boat. Get it launched easily, here it goes, turn the key. She fires on the first attempt, fast idle lever up, running a bit rough (cold natured).
I let it run for 15-20 seconds, put it in reverse, throttle a bit and she dies.
It started acting like the timing was off when trying to restart, as it would crank, then hang but it was trying to start...now the bad news.....
pulled cowling off, didn't see any issues, pulled distributor cap off, NO!!!!!!!!!!!
My rotor is shattered !!!!!!!!!! WTF ???
Now, I know these are non-removable and pricy to replace. My question is this...
I've had this running before I hit the water. What could be the reason it shattered??? old age and coincidently let loose?
I did have the cap off to change the plug wires and also had to unbolt the linkange arm ????? to get access but I never touched the rotor.
I thought I was careful putting everything back together and like I said, it even started first attempt in the water and ran for around 15 seconds.
Again, it died when I put it in reverse. Is there any way the linkage somehow was binding to shatter my rotor? I know what I have to do to replace the rotor but I don't want to break another one...provided I can even find another one.................... Any ideas ???????????????????
