Reply To: 1955 Evinrude 25hp sparker/slow crank question

[MHarrington]

I removed the lower last night and there was no difference.  I had a thought though, I have heard/seen engine assembly lube/grease if you let it sit the motor will become hard to turn or not turn at all.  I mixed some sae30, and acetone because I was out of atf and poured it down the carburetor into the engine block, to try and turn the lube back into lube if it had hardened.  I thought I ran it long enough to burn/run it all out and replaced with 2 stoke but maybe not.  I let it sit till this afternoon when I tried it again and it work great.  Spins fine (with both spark plugs in) I put some gas in the carb bowl and in the cylinder and it started right up and ran nice and smooth, besides smoking from the left-over acetone and sae30 mix.

I don’t know if anyone else has been having this issue or not, but this is the 3rd or 4th time, I have posted this reply in the last ~24hrs, I am not seeing it on my end.  Is it actually posting and I am not seeing it or is it not actually getting sent out?  I have waited until it says it has been posted and will leave the computer on for a minute or 2 after it says it has been posted then I turn off the computer.  But I still don’t see it.