I have a 1988 Sting Ray with a Mercruiser 3.0 liter. Lately I have
been having some trouble with the timing. I will set the timing and
it will start right up and idle well, but then after I speed up and
slow back down it will stall and be very hard to start, I was almost
stranded the last time I went out. Then if I adjust the timing again
I can get it running again. I am no expert on the ignition system but
I know that the timing is supposed to advance itself as the rpms go up
and then retard when they drop back down. Right now I have the points
style distributor in the boat and I think that whatever changes the
timing with the rpms is malfunctioning because when I adjust the
timing again it will start. So I have decided that in order to
eliminate this problem I am going to switch over to electronic
ignition. My question is do you think just using the conversion kit
which just converts the current distributor to an electronic one would
work? Has anyone used these kits? I am looking to do this as cheap
as possible. But since I am already having trouble with the ignition
I am unsure that the conversion kit will fix it and I will have to buy
the whole electronic distributor instead. I would like to buy just
the conversion kit unless you guys think that that won't help because
I am already having problems. So do you think that the conversion kit
will do or should I buy the whole electronic distributor? Thanks,
James.