The Great Evinrude Adventure!

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I went out and worked on the sled again. I fired it up with my spark tester hooked up and ran it until it died. I still had spark and lots of fuel supply so that only left one thing, compression! I wasted no time collecting all of my spare engine parts and I removed the engine from the sled again. I took the engine apart and found 2 corner seals were broken, the side plate was badly worn from the broken corner seals, and the housing had a nasty chunk out of the inside by the spark plug. No wonder it ran like crap! Luckily I had spare parts to replace all of those things so I did a quick rebuild. I also drilled the spark plug hole out to accept a 14mm spark plug instead of the obsolete 12mm stock plugs. I then put it all back together and tried it again. It ran much better than before, but still not 100%. It wouldn't idle for me and it wanted to cut out randomly on me. I decided to rebuild my other spare carburetor. The spare carb was pretty ugly so I figured it would be pretty untouched and original compared to my other carb. After some cleaning and a good soak in cleaner it was good to go! I put that carb on today and finally it runs good! Idles away very nice, just needs some fine tuning and a better battery.
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