shadowjakal73
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I Recently bought a 1997 Albemarle center console with the 7.4 gl in it. Ran it for about 30 minutes, slowed down to just above idle for several minutes approaching a channel then it died. Started it back up, ran it for several min and it died again, Got it started again after several min, let it idle and it died again. My first thought was fuel, but then I noticed that every time it died the tachometer quit working about three to five seconds prior. This led me dow ignition path. Felt the Coil and it felt pretty hot, I had my wife turn it over as I checked for spark at the distributor cap by removing a plug wire and it was non existent. Limped it back towards the marina till it finally wouldn’t start at all and got towed in. Brought the boat home after it cooled down and just tried cranking it to see and it started right up. I took all the leads off the coil (2 sets) ohm’d across the coil +/- and it was .6 ohms, which seems low, I thought theses were supposed to 1.5 ohms but I read somewhere 3 ohms and not really sure now what I need. The ignition module also smells like smoked electronics. Could this be just a bad Coil or do you think I have another issue? Any help is super appreciated!