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I tried to up load some but the files were too large so I need to figure out how to make them smaller. I will get some here, soon.
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H I was given a older 10 foot portabote and am trying to get in the water. I am having trouble getting any information from portabote. First when trying to put it together today I noticed that there are four holes in the wood bracket that match holes in the hull. Do I need to get bolts to hold...
Hi, I did cut 1/4” off of the high tension wires before I screwed them to the coils. I have continuity from boot to ground on both wires. I can remove the coils and plate, if it would help, and sdrew the lines in again. I noticed on the tune-up video that I put the coil wires in the wrong...
I did not remove the mag plate when I installed the coils. I did clean the points. Today I replaced the condensers and gapped the points. Still no spark.
The motor was puttingbout plenty of water when it was only running on one cylinder.
I am a newby to outboard repair and have been given a 1954 Johnson 5.5 ho cd-11 outboard. When running it I could not get it to idle down. I determined that the bottom cylinder was not running. Pulled the fw and found cracked and ugly coils. I have replaced the coils and now get no spark on...
