OK, here's my delima, I recently bought my boat from a friend that has owned since 1980. This is the first Mercury I have owned and don't know a lot about the distributor ignitions. The problem I have is that the tab broke off the distributor(under the cap), a local mechanic had a fairly new distributor off a blown 150hp that he sold me and he installed it, now the motor will not run over 2000 rpm's in the water and when i checked the timing it would not even read on the sticker at idle and WOT (max advance) it was only reading about 3-5 btdc.<br />The motor is a 1977 Merc 115hp and i done a compression check and it is as follows, #1 137, #2 133, #3 140, #4 137, #5 136, #6 135. I am running a 13" x 19 prop, all 3 carbs have been taken off and rebuilt, this motor has ran well before in the past because I have been on it numerous times but the boat has sit for 3 years and I was the one that accidentlly broke the dist. tab off.<br />I guess after rambling on is, how do I get the timing where it needs to be so that I can use Clams, lync and sync procedure? The mechanic that installed the distributor is so far behind that it will be another month or two before I get it back and I really don't want to wait on him again.<br />Thanks,<br />Rob
