<br /><br />Test with a 3/8" gap. It's important to see if the ignition system is running healthy. Jumping a .030" gap at atmospheric pressure is nothing like jumping a .030" gap with fuel/air at 6x+ atmospheric pressure. Princess Auto has a cheapy variable gap spark checker (< $5) or you can make one yourself with a board and a couple nails in it. Somehow I had it in my head this was a remote pressure tank setup, so ignore all the talk of primers, closing vents and such.<br />Make sure you've got adequate flow to the carb. On some of the tanks there's a fuel filter up inside them just above where the fuel line comes off it, which will clog up. Simply pull off the carb line and make sure gas flows freely from it.<br /><br />PS - you first posted Elco, Elto makes a lot more sense. In 1907, founder Ole Evinrude sold off his share of the Evinrude rowboat motor company. In 1920, he formed his own competing outboard motor company and called it 'ELTO' for Evinrude Light Twin Outboard - his latest outboard. His former buisness partner and owner of the Evinrude Rowboat Motor Company had foolishly rejected his design. Fast forward to 1929. The old Evinrude Rowboat Motor company isn't doing well at all, Elto has got very good sales, but Johnson is doing best of all. Along comes Foster Briggs (founder of Briggs and Stratton) and works out a merger between Elto, Evinrude, and another outboard company. They called the merged OMMC. Fast forward again to 1935, Johnson motors is hit hard by the depression - worse than OMMC. So OMMC buys up Johnson Motors. Now Johnson had a plant in Galesburg, IL which OMC set up to make private label outboards - Gales. These are sold all over as various brands, in Canada via Eatons as 'Viking Outboards' and also Eltos. The Canadian Gale/Eltos lasted a fair bit longer than they did down in the states, where the name was dropped in 1939.
