I was given a 1995? rude 70, mod# E70ELTEOR Guy said come by & pick it up its been lying in a truck bed for 6 months. Well when he took it of the boat he cut everything with a angle grinder , steering rod, throttle cable, shift cables , wire harness All cut right thru. No problem there as I have a tiller handle set up and want to make it a jet drive tiller. It has good compression all three cylinders are 135. but It has no spark on any, I am a complete dummy when it comes to understanding the electronics on outboards. I went to the CDI website and printed out the trouble shoot pages, But don't understand how to do what they say. I cut the black/yellow wire just above the top cylinder/t-stat area as that is the only place I could find it. re-tested still no spark. I unhooked the yellow wires at the rectifier & re-tested no spark, But when it says test between brown-yellow & brown where do I do this? & how? do I skin a bear spot in the wire? maybe poke the tip of my meter probe in the wire cover? I bought a
