Okay. I’m reporting back. Not good news. I have replaced the points, condensors, coil packs, plugs, wires, caps, and confirmed the points setting. While I can’t get it to fire at all, I have another problem that may be related. I noticed that the pull cord was hard to pull, and occasionally it would lock the armature plate and the flywheel together. I took the flywheel back off and everything freed up and operated smoothly. Put the flywheel back and and pulled some more with normal resistance – but no starting. Then it happened again. Pull the flywheel again and as you can see by the photo below, the flywheel it hitting the contact point on the coils too much. It’s about to damage my flywheel. Any thoughts? I bought the OEM coil packs from marineengine.com.
