Re: ’62 5.5 Fisherman won’t idle

[amuller]

I haven’t measured the compression–wanted to run it first and will do it now. It feels OK.

All I did to the ignition was clean it up and set to specs. Whoever changed the coils did not dress the leads well and they had rubbed on the flywheel hub.
Frankly, I thought the spark seemed rather marginal but its been a lot of years since I worked on outboards so I don’t have a good basis for comparison. If you care to share trade secrets, what are the "many tricks to improve spark strength?"

It still feels like a carburation issue to me but jumping to conclusions is not the way to go…..