Picked up a 1994 16' sea nymph with a 93 evinrude 30hp a week ago. The boat itself seems to be in great shape, motor not so much. Was a no start, removed cylinder head and heli - coiled top spark plug hole. Put it all back together and got it started. No water from tell tell. Water pump kit should be here tuesday. Went ahead and drained lower unit and pulled it to check out the water pump that the previous owner said was new. Haha. Nope. No big deal. Lower unit oil looked decent. Kinda dark, but no water in it. Before I pulled the water pump housing I noticed metal flakes on it. Looked up into the midsection and saw a bunch of metal flakes. When I had the head off to repair the spark plug hole, the cylinders and pistons looked great. No signs of wear on cylinders. There were a few metal flakes in the cylinder from the spark plug threads, but it didn't run with them in there that I know of. I plan on doing a compression test tomorrow. If I have good compression, should I just run it?