Another $509 and still no boat. Well they had it another week , rebuilt carb , wired in Ballast resistor, They took it to river 20 minutes later still stalled no start , only 4 0r 5 v at coil. Jump + coil starts right up. Found that when they operated trim switch the motor would go to stall. They checked all connections fuse holder a bit corroded cleaned up replaced fuse. Battery terminals looked a bit weak, replaced those, alt belt a little loose tightened. Back to river still stalls after 20 or 30 mins or so. Thought bad coil.(3 weeks old) replaced still stalled. finally swapped out old condenser that i had lying in the boat. While in the distributor found points wire a bit loose. took it back to river ran good for 45 minutes. I showed up and he said I got 6.5 hrs into this boat he charged me 3 . He was just glad to see it go. I get to river let it run 30 mins. on trailer before even attempting to leave. It ran great idled smooth accelerated great got up on plane.. Cool ! I ran it wide open for another 30 minutes or so then it started to miss and finally it stalled. Here we go again. 4.5 volts at coil no start. I called him up and let it cool down . I got towed back again , thanks to jetski . I brought it back again. This time I waited and watched , he couldn't get the dwell to drop below 45 and should be at 30. He would get it to 40 and i would drop all the way down. Over and over. He got it to about 40 and checked and adjusted timing which was now at 14 got it down to 10. After a while it started running rough. He checked points that were 2 weeks old and said they were burned , so he put in a new tune up kit. After putting the cap back on for the 10th time , while it was running he leaned or pushed on the distributor and noticed the engine stumble. IF you push a bit on the distributor(from the rear of engine forward) the dwell drops down and engine goes to stall. Could this be a bad distributor that gets hot and the shaft moves pushing the points out of adjustment? I was thinking maybe bad connection or corrosion between distributor and block.?? If it is maybe the resistor wire was misdiagnosed. More bad news . He says they don't make electronic kit for 2.3 . Distributor not available. Haven't checked more places yet . Has anybody ever heard of this? I'm into this boat shop for $668 in the last 2 weeks and it still does the same thing I brought it in for . Any help would be appreciated Thanks