Always check the compression and the fire with a gap tester first when trouble shooting...then your decision is it a fuel or fire problem...you have decided its a fire problem...however if the compression is bad you are pissing into the wind...plus you can count on a complete carb job if the motor has set for two years....
Hello papyson, thanks for reply. I guess I have not made myself very clear in my post. First before I posted I read somewhere on here about posting which ask the poster to add some history into the post (My first mistake). If I could start over.........I am capible of building an automotive engine, but just the engine without electronics. I know full well how a combustion engine works. However I am not a tech in electronics. Also I have never done any mechanical work on a marine engine except for the following,,, rebuilding carbs, changing water pumps, rebuild fuel pumps, prop work, starter rebuilds. Just the small stuff. I do belive I would have no problem rebuilding the entire mechanical aspect of a marine engine given I had the special tools and shop manual. Now back to asking for some help on this forum. I have very,,, very,,, little knowledge of the electronic side of it. I am very old school, points and so forth. I know what it takes for an engine to run as far as, fuel, spark, and O2. Now I do know this, I have seen a lot of any kind of engine running Slam Blown Up. Point being there is,,An engine does not have to have compression to fire. Thats what I am looking for,, "FIRE to the sparkplug" My outboard engine in question now will crank and run till it runs out of gas but only on one cylinder. I need to get two more cylinders to fire. I have checked all three cylinders with a spark tester. My problem lies in the cdi harness (I Think) somewhere between the stator and the coil. I have the tools to check,,,,,, but what, what?, where,?. Thats what I need help with. Someone has allready sent me to a site for help and they want to sell me a shop manual. That is not the kind of help I need. I dont know,, but maybe thats the way this forum works. If so my second mistake. Which means I need to look elsewhere. I dont know,,,,,yet. I hope this makes more since now. Agin thanks for both replies, and the answer about the stator. Which tells me that after the stator there must be three things that can go bad that will stop fire to the plug. One for each coil. Just guessing. airboat233