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Glad to hear it is running well enough to boat test now. 85psi on both is quite respectable for one of these motors. I recently worked on a ’63 and it was about 88 on both with my gauge. Gauges could easily be off that much and how you pull the rope makes amlittle.difference too. Equal at 85 psi should make a fine running 5.5.
It’s certainly possible the gear teeth are off a cog. I usually don’t pay too much attention to where the pointer is on the ring. The important thing is that the mag is moving through the full path when the grip is turned from stop to stop. The other important thing is that the throttle cam starts opening the throttle at the right time during the spark advance.
I use J6Cs in all my classic OMCs from 2hp to 18hp. I have used J4Cs too and they are fine as long as you are not trolling for extended periods amd the engine is in a good state of tune. I like to troll sometimes so I stick with the J6Cs with great success.
Not sure about the crankcase drain and the loading up symptom. It kind of makes sense but I have not experienced this yet on the motors I have worked on. I have become pretty decent at the 5.5s and 6s, but I sure don’t claim to know all there is to know about them. The number of them I have done is small compared to many here. Hope this helps some.
-Ben
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