Reply To: Another new guy question

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The cylinder and piston (what I can see of it) look good and pretty snug fit of piston to cylinder. I think I’ll take the advice of getting a cpl gaskets sand the cylinder wall slightly and see what happens. One engine is getting good spark on one cylinder and nothing on the other and the other engine is getting no spark either cylinder. Hopefully I can get both cylinders on one to spark. Then I’ll scuff cylinder, clean carb and tank and just see what happens. I’ve only been interested in these old motors a few weeks. (I now have 9 lol) But I guess you learn as you go. Next time I buy one I’ll for sure take a compression gauge with me. No compression seems to be a deal breaker right off the bat due to parts being NLA. (Disappointing) carb kits impellers gaskets and ignition seem to be a little easier to find, and you have the option of used for these also. I bought about 6 of these motors from the same individual, who was a lot less than honest about at least 3 of the engines. From the looks of his shop and talking to him he has been collecting and fixing these old motors for a while. He knew I was new to the hobby and let me leave there KNOWING the two Johnsons were low compression and also got a 39 Neptune that’s got ignition problems (when I asked about the ignition his reply was I’m not sure I havnt checked it, but he seemed to be able to tell me every engine he had that would run lol) also parts missing from lower unit in Neptune. There’s good and bad in any hobby I reckon, but like I said there’s a lot that you learn as you go. Seem to be some helpful people involved in the hobby also, hope to meet a few of them also

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