jdavis2896
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Hello all,
new to message boards, and i could use some advice on a used omc boat i bought from a buddy of mine it is a 1989 bluefin sportsman model 1950 19 ft aluminum with a 2.3L ford omc stern drive TKO Cobra 232 amrgde. after looking at the firing order in the repair manual is it possible that my distributor was installed 180 off? to further explain in the book facing forward it shows that the number one on the distributor should be the first one on the left however my number one is facing towards rear right if you were facing forward the boat runs great and the timing is set on the mark of the crank at 10 BTDC but it will not get over 4100 rpm's and about 31MPH the prop is a 13.25x17 I thought it might be the prop but the guy at the prop store said it looked good and he looked it up and said it should have a max rpm of 5000 to 5500 he also recommended trying a 13.5x15 pitch prop. New plugs, rotor, wires, rotor cap etc. it has the pertronix ignitor II conversion the kind that has the red electonic pickup on the points plate then the black spacer that installs on the middle of the dist shaft not gaps in between the rotor and the spacer etc. with a CDI Shift Assist modular instead of the diode fix deal. The red wire from the pertronix is ran to a constant 12v source instead of the resistance ignition coil since it still has a 1.5 internal resistance coil with the resistance wire still in place which is new. it doesn't back fire or anything but the firing order on the distributor is really puzzling to me because the number one is facing back instead of forward or front left like the book shows a shop did replace the block a few years ago before I bought it, and they are not very credible is it possible they installed the distributor wrong and just set the timing to compensate or is that not possible it has a mallory dist RH rotation model number ys621cv. I dont know if this is a different ford 2.3 or if they installed the dist 180 out. Oh yah all the timing marks line up on the cam and the crank at 0 but the rotor is facing back for number one instead of towards the front. or just a different 2.3L block. it still has the aux distributor gear etc like the book.
Forgot to mention that the distributor cap is on correctly fitted into the tab on the dist housing so it is not installed backwards FYI.
thanks
sorry for all the redundancy i am new to this board but I have read I lot of postings on here for help and you all seem like a very helpful group so i thought I would give it a try.
any advice you may have would be helpful the main thing is can the distributor be 180 out and still time and run?
when I verified the timing the boat had muffs do I need to be under load?
thanks
new to message boards, and i could use some advice on a used omc boat i bought from a buddy of mine it is a 1989 bluefin sportsman model 1950 19 ft aluminum with a 2.3L ford omc stern drive TKO Cobra 232 amrgde. after looking at the firing order in the repair manual is it possible that my distributor was installed 180 off? to further explain in the book facing forward it shows that the number one on the distributor should be the first one on the left however my number one is facing towards rear right if you were facing forward the boat runs great and the timing is set on the mark of the crank at 10 BTDC but it will not get over 4100 rpm's and about 31MPH the prop is a 13.25x17 I thought it might be the prop but the guy at the prop store said it looked good and he looked it up and said it should have a max rpm of 5000 to 5500 he also recommended trying a 13.5x15 pitch prop. New plugs, rotor, wires, rotor cap etc. it has the pertronix ignitor II conversion the kind that has the red electonic pickup on the points plate then the black spacer that installs on the middle of the dist shaft not gaps in between the rotor and the spacer etc. with a CDI Shift Assist modular instead of the diode fix deal. The red wire from the pertronix is ran to a constant 12v source instead of the resistance ignition coil since it still has a 1.5 internal resistance coil with the resistance wire still in place which is new. it doesn't back fire or anything but the firing order on the distributor is really puzzling to me because the number one is facing back instead of forward or front left like the book shows a shop did replace the block a few years ago before I bought it, and they are not very credible is it possible they installed the distributor wrong and just set the timing to compensate or is that not possible it has a mallory dist RH rotation model number ys621cv. I dont know if this is a different ford 2.3 or if they installed the dist 180 out. Oh yah all the timing marks line up on the cam and the crank at 0 but the rotor is facing back for number one instead of towards the front. or just a different 2.3L block. it still has the aux distributor gear etc like the book.
Forgot to mention that the distributor cap is on correctly fitted into the tab on the dist housing so it is not installed backwards FYI.
thanks
sorry for all the redundancy i am new to this board but I have read I lot of postings on here for help and you all seem like a very helpful group so i thought I would give it a try.
any advice you may have would be helpful the main thing is can the distributor be 180 out and still time and run?
when I verified the timing the boat had muffs do I need to be under load?
thanks
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