Ok, so I leave home at 3:30 to hunt a nuc plant, get a shitty draw, put the boat in and start to head to my stake and motor starts running like a piece of wet shit. Backfireing, dieing, won't run under load at all. One of the guys in the boat notices spark jumping through spark plug wire to block. I ***** rigged it with black tape changed plugs and still running like crap. I limped home after the hunt going half the speed of smell against a 25mph head wind and put it on the trailer. At least it was a sweltering 19 degrees!

Now for the question:
To replace the bad wire do I have to order a whole new coil and wire? Any other ideas why one cylinder would drop? I'm about one repair away from going back to an outboard and jackplate

Oh, I have a 36 PD with EVT stage one mods.

my past exsperince with small engines is the plug wire is made into the coil. im not shure about what you have but id guess and say it is. there not that cheap either and aggravatin to get back on and spaced right for me(magnatized). but was it still groundin out when you taped it up an all that?