Reply To: Sea King Ran, Then Doesn’t Need Help Please

[jeff-register]

Please don’t use starter fluid, it has no luberication & will hurt it! Check the carb again as I was suprised on my Firestone 7.5hp motor has a “fixed” fuel flow & the adjustment is in thet idle screw adjusts the air flow. Opposite than normal usually. Measure resistance from the spark plug wire to ground also. It should br around 4000 ohms, if open it’s bad. If very high resistance, you may have a arc from running without plug wire connected. It arcs to the mag plate & leaves a pin hole on the coiilbcvering & maybe a carbon arc connection in the secondary winding. A carbon arc connection will read very high resistance. Look on the outside  of the block for wet fuel leakage. Maybe block haves leaking fuel charge.