Re: 58 Johnson Outboard - backfiring and dead
Okay, what I seem to have MAY be more than one problem. Let me start over. I recently bought a 1958 Johnson Super Sea Horse 35HP outboard motor. It had not been run for several years prior to my purchasing it. When I first hooked it up, I drained the bottom end fluid, and refilled. after having filled a drum with water, I started the motor. It ran shaky at first, then after a few minutes of fine tuning the mixture, it ran like a dream. Several weeks later, after putting it on a newer boat, it started backfiring, and smoking around the magneto area. I promtply shut it down and disconnected the battery. I took the hand pull section off the top of the motor to inspect the coils thru the viewer. I saw that one coil was broken, and plastic parts where all over inside, the other coil was fine. I took off the flywheel, replaced BOTH coils, Points, etc. reset the gap to the manufactures rec. of .020. I also installed new plugs. Put everything back together, except could not remember where the small metal piece with the allen screw went on the link rod assembly which is mounted to a brace on the pull start, at the front of the motor, near the top. (It's a thin wire which goes like a candy cane, and on the short end has a spring, a lever, and the metal object with the allen screw.<br /> 1) can anyone tell me if that metal object goes between the spring and the lever? or is the proper order the sring, lever, and metal object. <br /><br />2) can anyone tell me how do I know if this piece is set like it is supposed to be, since acording to the original owners manual, this mechinism is for the Carb, Choke, and Magneto altogether.<br /><br />3) upon starting the motor now, it still starts, runs for a breif minute (sometimes more, sometimes less than a minute), then backfires, and stalls. It smells, when it is runing, like it is getting too much fuel (burning rich), <br /><br />3'b) and there seems to be an occasional drip of fuel from the choke area/cylindar. <br /><br />4) And could the drip from the choke area be because upon putting the motor in a drum it doesn't set level, and fuel is getting from the carb to the choke area because it runs down hill, instead of level?<br /><br />The magneto wires (two black wires) is solved after taking input from a fellow boater (see above), which I thank very much.<br /><br />By the way, there are no dealers in my area willing to work on an "antique" (they laugh at me when I ask them), and I'm not a rich man, and therefore can't afford a brand new motor for a few months of good clean summer fun with the family. Any help anyone can give me is greatly appreciated.<br />
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