It was raining here today and it is a holiday here in Canada. I pulled out a 5D14v gale 5hp that I did a minor rebuild on last winter and it just didn't run well last summer. Ran but never purred at low throttle setting and never seemed to make full RPM.
I re-gaped the points, rechecked compression, check synchronization, checked points opening at 180 degrees. Lots of 1/8" spark. New carb kit in 2010 and cleaned it twice last summer with no change. I finished checking and re-gapping the plug and was torquing the plug to 240in/lbs when one of the plugs just didn't feel right. One plug didn't have a seal/washer on it. Grabbed a set of plugs from a CD11 head and tank tested the Gale and Bingo ran like a kitten. Just shows you some times you can miss the simplest of things.
jim
I re-gaped the points, rechecked compression, check synchronization, checked points opening at 180 degrees. Lots of 1/8" spark. New carb kit in 2010 and cleaned it twice last summer with no change. I finished checking and re-gapping the plug and was torquing the plug to 240in/lbs when one of the plugs just didn't feel right. One plug didn't have a seal/washer on it. Grabbed a set of plugs from a CD11 head and tank tested the Gale and Bingo ran like a kitten. Just shows you some times you can miss the simplest of things.
jim
