mashed_finger
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"I have a 1992 Reinell with a
"I have a 1992 Reinell with a built Ford 302 V8 to HO plus some extra grunt (315hp) and or course an OMC I/O,this boat is way to built for my needs, so I am learning to deal with the power w/o eating output shafts. It came with the stock Prestolite BID and a tired coil. The boat has a hard time idling below 850 and sometimes dies. The holly 600 dbl. pmpr. was just rebuilt. So I started with the usual tune up procedures i.e new wires,plugs, rotor, coil. I bought a real good Accell performance coil thinking it would help with the idle. The coil mounts right on the intake manifold in the horizontal position, so that is where I put the new Accell. It lasted less than 6 hours and burned up. Since the boat does not use points, I saw no need for a ballast resistor. It left me stranded on the water in the middle of no where, until I reinstalled the old coil, I noticed it said, Ballast resistor required. So I checked the repair manual and followed the schematic, and it did not show a ballast resistor anywhere.
So I bought a new MSD Blaster 2 coil, it said it needed a ballast resistor if using a points system, which mine a B.I.D. So I called them and they told me to measure the OHM resistance of all the ign. wiring to make sure nothing is over 0.8 Ohms. Before I did that, the MSD coil also wants to be mounted in a vertical position. So I made a plate for it and mounted it above and behind the carb.but the coil wires would not stretch that far. So I tied the 2 pos.& 2 neg. wires together with screws and nuts and taped them up real good,and added one pos.16gage and one neg 16gage wire(s)to attach to the coil.
Then I measured the OHM rates and could not find any measurement higher than 0.8ohms. I measured across the new coil wires from pos. to neg. and came up with 1.4ohms. I started the boat and it ran and idled great. My question is, is the above going to work correctly, do I need a ballast resistor after all, the new MSD stays nice and cool, where the Accell and the old original coil would heat up just turning the key on, is there something else lurking to get me later I should be looking at?
How reliable are the Prestolite BID distributors, and what is the ESA module, I can't find a description of it anywhere in my Sealock manual. Thanks in advance.
Rick"
"I have a 1992 Reinell with a built Ford 302 V8 to HO plus some extra grunt (315hp) and or course an OMC I/O,this boat is way to built for my needs, so I am learning to deal with the power w/o eating output shafts. It came with the stock Prestolite BID and a tired coil. The boat has a hard time idling below 850 and sometimes dies. The holly 600 dbl. pmpr. was just rebuilt. So I started with the usual tune up procedures i.e new wires,plugs, rotor, coil. I bought a real good Accell performance coil thinking it would help with the idle. The coil mounts right on the intake manifold in the horizontal position, so that is where I put the new Accell. It lasted less than 6 hours and burned up. Since the boat does not use points, I saw no need for a ballast resistor. It left me stranded on the water in the middle of no where, until I reinstalled the old coil, I noticed it said, Ballast resistor required. So I checked the repair manual and followed the schematic, and it did not show a ballast resistor anywhere.
So I bought a new MSD Blaster 2 coil, it said it needed a ballast resistor if using a points system, which mine a B.I.D. So I called them and they told me to measure the OHM resistance of all the ign. wiring to make sure nothing is over 0.8 Ohms. Before I did that, the MSD coil also wants to be mounted in a vertical position. So I made a plate for it and mounted it above and behind the carb.but the coil wires would not stretch that far. So I tied the 2 pos.& 2 neg. wires together with screws and nuts and taped them up real good,and added one pos.16gage and one neg 16gage wire(s)to attach to the coil.
Then I measured the OHM rates and could not find any measurement higher than 0.8ohms. I measured across the new coil wires from pos. to neg. and came up with 1.4ohms. I started the boat and it ran and idled great. My question is, is the above going to work correctly, do I need a ballast resistor after all, the new MSD stays nice and cool, where the Accell and the old original coil would heat up just turning the key on, is there something else lurking to get me later I should be looking at?
How reliable are the Prestolite BID distributors, and what is the ESA module, I can't find a description of it anywhere in my Sealock manual. Thanks in advance.
Rick"