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    Idle / Slow speed timing advancement screw missing?

    Going to try new spark plug leads because I'm convinced it's an electrical problem and my spark plug leads shock me if I touch them while running
  2. J

    Idle / Slow speed timing advancement screw missing?

    Nevermind that, I don't think a cylinder is dropping, it just drops too much on revs and goes really sluggish altogether I think
  3. J

    Idle / Slow speed timing advancement screw missing?

    Other thing I mentioned is I was actually able to prevent it from dying between my idle speed & carburetor mixture screws, but its like it drops a cylinder, it just goes really sluggish but it'll stay on. Is the cdi's warm-up activation causing a cylinder to drop?
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    Idle / Slow speed timing advancement screw missing?

    I just bought the boat at the end of last year off of someone. They said they had it serviced, I had a mechanic put in a new impeller and clean out the carburetors towards the end of last year as well and they checked compression. I'll look at doing another check if I can borrow a gauge off a...
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    Idle / Slow speed timing advancement screw missing?

    Correction - I mean starboard, my apologies. Compression was apparently good as tested by a mechanic but I wasn't told the exact values. The motors just not idling at the moment, it was not long ago (has always been a little rough) and im not exactly sure what was the queue for spoiling the...
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    Idle / Slow speed timing advancement screw missing?

    Hi, The seloc manual and two other sources including a mechanic, has suggested the slow speed adjustment screw to me but I can't find it under the fly wheel on the port side side, all I see is the blue cdi electronics timer base. There is simply no screw in the spot I am seeing on other...
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