Re: New 2hp Elgin…Need idle screw…

[20mercman]

Thanks for your help Frank! We used one from a Mk-5 carburetor. Just finished up putting it back together this evening, and ran it in the test drum. You have to admire these old Elgin motors. They are so well built and simple. We paid $15 for two of them last year, a 2.5hp single and a 3.5hp twin. The original 2.5 is a parts motor for now, but the 3.5 was running that afternoon. The latest 2.5 we paid $5 for it, and if you add the cost of the parts motor from last year, I have $10 in it. These both run so darn nice, it is just funny. Same old coils, same old condenser, same old water pump….cleaned up the carburetor, and they run like a sewing machine! I love my Mercury’s, but there is no way I could get one of them of that vintage running for a few pennies of carb cleaner, some gasket material and cleaning the spark plug!

Steve