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I took the prop off and there are no markings on front or back. I also pulled the flywheel today planning to replace the points, condensers and coils if they looked bad. The coils looked fairly new and had no cracks so I decided to leave them for the time being. The points on the other hand were both looking pretty bad. I figured this was probably the source of the trouble with the bottom cylinder not firing. I opened the new points and discovered that the grommet hole in the points was too small to go over the post that holds the moveable part of the points in place. I was really surprised since I was using “genuine” Evinrude/Johnson parts that were marked as fitting my ’56 30 hp. I decided to drill out the plastic grommet so that it would fit over the post but I’m not too happy about with the idea of running these compromised points. Has anyone else experienced this problem with points? Any suggestions on how to proceed?