No spark

63 Skier wrote: If you have power at the coil primary, but no spark from the coil lead when you open the points, you may have a bad coil. First replace the condensor, then the coil.

waste of time,

spark the points a couple of times to seat them and instal the cap, set dwell and timing and be done with it. Same crap we had to do to Jbear's ride.

Ditch the points and you don't have to mess with it or getting dwell meter either

well maybe he should ditch the points for a real ignition system or maybe spark the points to charge the system or fix the wires that are crossed in the system. And maybe not do so many electrical changes at once.

Kill switch on an 80, no wrong boat year sorry.

First, make sure your wiring resembles whats on the diagram www.abbysenior.com/mechanics/ignition.htm

Inspect the wiring, points are clean and gapped correctly, cam lobes are good, check voltage at the coil while cranking (12VDC)& approx 9VDV with ignition sw on, check for spark at the coil wire (removed from cap and placed close to ground & make sure you are clear of any ignitions source i.e. gasoline) by opening and closing the points manually with the ignition on, check spark at the plug wires by connecting a spare spark plug and grounding it while cranking the engine. IF you still haven't figure out what the problem is, start over, you missed something.

I have a 1980 Ski Nautique that I have been working on for some time now and I am just about to take it to the lake for a test run and now I do not have any spark. I just put all new gages and new plugs,wires,cap,rotor,points,resistor and coil. It had spark before I put in the new gages and now nuthing. The coil has power and I do not know what could be wrong. Can anyone help me PLEASE!!!!!!!!!