Thanks for any help you can offer me. I have a 1983 mercury 2.4 200 hp serial #06392841. I have run some diagnostic tests on it; I believe I need a new Stator. It does not have a voltage regulator, only a rectifier. In the book, that motor used a 9amp stator and two different types of 16 amp stators. On another website, I thought I read that you only use the 9 amp stator with a rectifier setup. When I pulled my flywheel to get the number off the stator, there was no number. I measured the laminations on the stator and they measured 5/8 of an inch, which leads me to believe/guess that this is a 16 amp stator, which I'm not sure why/how this is working with the rectifier. I seem to go through a lot of ignition coils; don't know if the motor is just prone to that or if it's a stator. Also the number on the flywheel is 74787, which I don't believe is the original flywheel for the motor. Not sure, but I think I saw that number flywheel on a 70 or 80 hp Mercury (online). This may be a smaller flywheel than the stock one- maybe as a performance upgrade?
I'm trying to figure out which stator to run with the rectifier and this flywheel. The motor has no spark on starboard bank. Did all the tests according to CDI website. It's not the coils and am pretty sure it's not the switchboxes (they're pretty new.) CDI site told me to lean towards the stator after doing the diagnostics.

Thanks again for any ideas you can offer. This is for 1983 Mercury 2.4 on the back of a 1986 Venus Hydrostream.

Drew