Reply To: 1965 Evinrude 9½ Carb Questions

[oldoutboardjim]

Thank you for your continued input. I had the low speed jet set at about 1¼ turns, so that should have been “in the ballpark”.

At this point I have washed my hands of it, and gave it back to the owner. It used to be that I could tune up outboards in my sleep, but it’s been years of “out of practice”, so I had to admit failure. I’m bummed about failing, but at some point, one has to cut their losses.

I previously checked the ignition, and it appears to have good spark. However, since I no longer have ignition testing equipment (Merc-O-Tronic), I can’t say that all components are good.

I did run into a weird situation while timing it with a degree wheel. One set of points easily adjusted to the mark on the mag plate, but the other set of points was maxed-out on adjustment, and I was unable to get it within better that about a half inch of the mark.