Re: ’57 Johnson 7.5 hp dropping a cylinder, but got it back???

[Leon]

quote Richard A. White:

And the winner is !!!!!

None of us 🙁

It seems when the previous "mechanic" replaced the original coils, the upper cylinder coil wire was not inserted far enough into the coil, causing it to fire intermittently, it actually burned, or for a better description, left the little plastic grommet charred and partly missing AND charring the inside of the plug wire socket in the coil. This appeared to leave some rust on the wire in that socket. So as precaution I replaced that coil and BOTH plug wires, as they seemed old and brittle.

Pretty confident this will resolve that cylinder dropping issue. So the $20 question is, would that coil still be usable???

Have a great day guys and thanks for helping.

Regards

Richard

I bet you didn’t read my post sir. 😀