"Question concerning the dist.
"Question concerning the dist. cap and rotor. Can I use a dist. cap and rotor from the volvo car or is this special to the marine engine? Here is a little update. Ran out of gas about 2 miles from shore, had to get a tow, my guage was off a little (ha) had the wife panicing. Well the good samaritian pulled me in and all was good at the dock when I refilled. So this weekend I took the boat out and on my way out someone asked for my help towing a jet ski that broke down. As I headed to repay the good deed, I quickly ran aground sucking lots of beach sand into the motor, stranding me in the channel and I couldn't help the guy. To make it worse, it was pouring down rain, the boat was too hot to run. so anchored in the channel I removed the raw water pump and flushed water through the strainer. Used my 24lb thrust battery motor to continue fishing (ha, yeah in the rain) and made it about 1 mile to the dock on two batteries pushing a 20 ft boat. funny. Anyway took the coolant tank off and flushed out all the sand until there was no more (did this from both ends) and then flushed all the water tubes and bilge. Any other concerns I should be looking for. I also flushed out the impeller and pump. this led to the cap developing moisture from the hot water boiling over when I removed the strainer."