Re: Evinrude…primer .. not a choke! WEIRD

[Don]

I remember CPS, CRS, and Casey’s great comment about ……"if an electron flows through it, OMC can !@#$ it up!"…..
How about "voo-doo ignition", that was fun too.
Yeah, that manual primer had a "warm up position" that just added a little extra fuel during warm up to combat the engines cold blooded tendencies. How much time was wasted diagnosing a poor/no idling condition that was caused by the owner leaving the manual primer knob in the warm up position? The plastic knob had a squishy/weak feel, you had to know the difference between just pumping air (after a customer let motor run dry) and when the knob was actually doing something when you pulled it all the way out and let it release back.
And how about the lovely plastic fuel bowls on the cross V models that made shavings every time a jet was removed/installed, the warped mating surfaces were great for fuel leaks too!
I remember Billy C’s solution for the sticky solenoids: "tap on it"!
We laugh now, but it was really very sad stuff, a direct result of bean counters "running the show".