Msd Question
06-23-2003, 09:56 AM
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Msd Question
Early last year I had a MSD box fail and sent it in to be repaired, as the box was not all that old they sent me a replacement at the nominal fee. My question is, can a box that appears to be running fine, meaning times out steady, runs good at idle and mid range, very little transom soot, lose about 400 rpm at top end?
06-23-2003, 12:41 PM
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I had MSD that would not let motor rap over 4400, changed box out & motor then went to 5600. I called MSD & they told me they do not have bad boxes & it was something else causing problem.
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06-23-2003, 05:21 PM
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How old are the plug wires? my 250 hour old wires would be crappy at start up, could max out at 4500rpm by myself with gas so low that when I came into the no wake zone the boat stalled was also 48*. Changed them out with some MagStar wires this spring, starts first time, ran 4950 with 4 people and 1/4 tank earlier today (was 80's today).
06-24-2003, 05:22 PM
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To run 2 boxes, which wire gets switched? Do you splice the wires with the plug to the distributer together? or just leave them hanging loose till the one box fails?
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