Reply To: 1967 Evinrude Lightwin won’t start/run

[mierla]

Thanks again, Joe. Not sure I would ever have gotten there without you folks’ help. This site and its members are such an incredible well of knowledge.

That’s really interesting about the spark plugs. What I’ve got in there right now are Champion J6C, but I bought some extras, so maybe I’ll dig out a file and give the mod a try, if I get brave/confident enough.

ps Just make sure its circulating water well especially if you just changed the impeller which I think you said you did. You wouldn’t want to overheat it especially when you got it going now..

Oh yes – I changed the impeller, and cleaned out the channels around the exhaust chamber and cylinder head, so water should have a clear path around the powerhead, I think…

I fired it up again (Hurrah! Two days in a row!) during my midday-take-the-dog-out break today, having raised the bucket and water level, and was pleased to see mist and little jets of water spitting out of the eight little holes in the lower half, so that means the impeller’s working properly, right?