Reply To: 1959 Lark flywheel hanging up on magneto

[lindy46]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I seem to have resolved the problem. There were some rough spots inside the flywheel by the magnet. I ground them smooth and now nothing is binding. Not sure why I didn’t notice any binding before.

On another note, I got a genuine Evinrude / Johnson (BRP) tuneup kit and sure enough it was made in China. One set of points wouldn’t open wide enough with the eccentric adjustment screw and I had to manually open them properly. The other set wouldn’t open at all and I had to remove the eccentric screw to get them to open. I adjusted them to. 020″ and checked timing with the mark on the flywheel and two marks on the mag plate. I found that in order to get the points to break when the flywheel mark was between the two marks on the mag plate, I had to set the points to .022-.023″. Just a heads up for anyone using the “new” points made in China. They will most likely not be correct if set to 020″. Use the timing marks to be sure.