Gone-Fishing
Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2010
- Messages
- 7
Okay I have had this boat for about a week and been messing with it non stop. Here is what I have tried:
Purged all the fuel lines and tank put in fresh 50:1 mixed gas (I accidently bought 89 octane with the ethanol but didn't figure it would matter and plan on getting it without ethanol next time)
It already has brand new plugs, new starter.
I have been able to occasionaly get it started up but only will stay running at full throttle.
I thought it was getting a weak spark so I bought a 12 volt coil with a built in resistor, condensor, coil wire, and different plugs but couldn't get it to fire at all so I put the old parts back on. I still was having bad luck but I don't know if its a contact breaker point behind the rotor in the distributor but it rubs the lobe on the shaft. It wasn't opening so I adjusted it closer and it seems that it had fixed my problems. I was able to fire it up rev it idle it and then I shut it down and tried a few minutes later and having the same luck as before.
I believe the timing is correct but I don't have a timing light. I did observe that with the number 1 piston at tdc the flywheel was at 0 degrees and the distributor mark was facing the flywheel.
If anyone has any ideas of where to go from here let me know. I starting to consider just selling the motor for whatever I can get out of it and buying a cheap smaller engine that is guaranteed to run on. I really wanted to get this engine running though because its all hooked up with a steering wheel and power tilt trim (need to replace the electric motor). I don't have alot of money to throw at this.
Purged all the fuel lines and tank put in fresh 50:1 mixed gas (I accidently bought 89 octane with the ethanol but didn't figure it would matter and plan on getting it without ethanol next time)
It already has brand new plugs, new starter.
I have been able to occasionaly get it started up but only will stay running at full throttle.
I thought it was getting a weak spark so I bought a 12 volt coil with a built in resistor, condensor, coil wire, and different plugs but couldn't get it to fire at all so I put the old parts back on. I still was having bad luck but I don't know if its a contact breaker point behind the rotor in the distributor but it rubs the lobe on the shaft. It wasn't opening so I adjusted it closer and it seems that it had fixed my problems. I was able to fire it up rev it idle it and then I shut it down and tried a few minutes later and having the same luck as before.
I believe the timing is correct but I don't have a timing light. I did observe that with the number 1 piston at tdc the flywheel was at 0 degrees and the distributor mark was facing the flywheel.
If anyone has any ideas of where to go from here let me know. I starting to consider just selling the motor for whatever I can get out of it and buying a cheap smaller engine that is guaranteed to run on. I really wanted to get this engine running though because its all hooked up with a steering wheel and power tilt trim (need to replace the electric motor). I don't have alot of money to throw at this.
