Jerry, Russ concurred with you regarding the modern spark plug wire not being
as abrasion resistant as in the past. Also he suggested shielding the plug
wire with aluminum.
I didn’t do that, but messed around for an hour with wire routing and "hold downs"
before I was satisfied.
I added a hold-down to each plug wire on the front of the power head, forcing
the plug wire to make a "loop" that more or less goes over the cable pulley
on one side, and cable bracket on the other.
I remember on my 1948 Evinrude Sportwin 3.3 hp project that the original plug
wire had some special routing, and it was a lot more "limber" than modern
wire. Installing modern plug wire on this unit didn’t work out well.
Anyone selling "limber" plug wire?
Anyway, the Martin is all back together…… just have to wait until April
or so until I can fill up the test barrel to try it out again 🙁
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