Reply To: Mercury KE-7 potential issues

[NATHAN KILLIAN]

green-thumbs wrote:

Spark advance and carburetor butterfly opening are synchronized. It may be worth checking of carb is properly
assembled… they can be misassembled… guess why I know.
Louis

I did look at that, and the butterfly was opening as advance lever advanced, which I assume would be right.   I tried a few more times (about 100 good pulls at various speeds and with choke on and off at various times) and was not able to get it to pop, so I don’t quite know what is up with it.  Sometimes it starts, and other times it doesn’t.  I will try getting a better example of a 10+ mercury next year, but considering that this motor has so many (somewhat) mismatched parts, I do not think it is worth the time for me to fix it.

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