Reply To: 1956 Evinrude 15hp Throttle Q and Fouling

[andreaskc]

Finally coaxed the flywheel inspection bolts off without stripping them tonight. Few initial findings…..

Coils not cracked
Coil/Points/Condensers all look very clean/shiny

One of the coils still has a fabric coated wire connected to the points and looks slightly frail at the coil connection. The other coil has a nice heatshrunk plastic coated wire with modern writing on it.

Observing the spark plug wires as they move when throttle is advanced to wide open shows that both wires, but especially the bottom cylinder wire is chafing against an exterior metal support and has made a significant dent into the plug wire…. not enough to show internal wire, but looks problematic.

I think my plan is now to pull the flywheel, replace the solo fabric sheathed wire from coil to point and run new plug wires trying to avoid them from making physical contact with metal frame as they are advanced.