No walt, it's internal to the stator itself. the engines were mostly mid '80's, but the stators failed repeatedly after being replaced with factory stators. this was in the early & mid '90's, at the time my local dealership wouldn't sell mercury stators, they would order aftermarket ones from a company called sierra. apparently the epoxy that the windings were potted in wasn't dielectric enough. windings would "cross talk" & produce frequencies never intended by the engineers...........Time frame is close to your engine's production date, & wasn't just v-6 related, that's just what most of my bass fishin' buddies had.
