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Don’t know if this applies to your motor or not, but I haven’t forgotten the Chris Craft/Oliver that drove me nuts about 60 years ago. Like yours, it absolutely refused to start or keep running. So, my question to you is, have you or anybody else had the carburetor off? The reed block is sealed to the crankcase by a big o-ring. When you reinstall the carburetor you must tighten the nuts hard enough to squish that o-ring enough so that the reed block bottoms out in the crankcase. If it is not bottomed out, the crankcase fuel/air charge simply passes up and down between the upper and lower chambers. Whether or not it runs at all, or just poorly, depends on how close to bottoming out you got that reed block.
Those can be great running motors.