bigchunkytaco
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opened up an old johnson was told it was running 6 months ago but fuel pump was buggered.
i beleive its a 69 model 40hp model #40RL69R
tested the spark one of which wasnt working so took the pull start and head off, one of the little spring plates on the coils wasnt touching so i pushed it with a screwdriver to make the tiny plates touch, seemed to give me good spark so i put a new fuel pump in reconnected the leads but couldnt get it to start, so pulled the plugs back out and now getting intermittant and mostly no spark. no idea why it would have strong spark and then choose not to... unless those plates are were meant to NOT touch..
there is a groove in the shaft and also on the round metal head that makes me think there should be some kind of pin or key that fits the grooves together? should it be spinning freely with the pull start or be attached to the shaft (when in gear it doesnt move the prop when you yank the pull cord)
also confused as to the purpose of the big cut out switch on the starboard side of the engine that has a fuel line going to the case. i have the bottom/middle red wire running up under the stator, and the top yellow wire running to what seems to be that igntion cut of switch that depresses with position of the throttle ( i.e start/run). the other side of this switch has no wire coming from it?
should this button be depressed to start, or open...
on my other outboard this switch had to be pushed in (corresponding with the neutral on the gear selector) however when the throttle is in the start position this button is not pushed in.. correct? where should the other side of this switch be wired to?
the manual push button cut out switch is disconnected.. i would guess that one of the wires goes to the stator with the red wire and the other one maybe goes to the other side of that button switch with yellow wire? or something else?
is my wiring just incomplete? i cant understand why that would give me random sparks.. any help would be greatly appreciated despite my poor description..
opened up an old johnson was told it was running 6 months ago but fuel pump was buggered.
i beleive its a 69 model 40hp model #40RL69R
tested the spark one of which wasnt working so took the pull start and head off, one of the little spring plates on the coils wasnt touching so i pushed it with a screwdriver to make the tiny plates touch, seemed to give me good spark so i put a new fuel pump in reconnected the leads but couldnt get it to start, so pulled the plugs back out and now getting intermittant and mostly no spark. no idea why it would have strong spark and then choose not to... unless those plates are were meant to NOT touch..
there is a groove in the shaft and also on the round metal head that makes me think there should be some kind of pin or key that fits the grooves together? should it be spinning freely with the pull start or be attached to the shaft (when in gear it doesnt move the prop when you yank the pull cord)
also confused as to the purpose of the big cut out switch on the starboard side of the engine that has a fuel line going to the case. i have the bottom/middle red wire running up under the stator, and the top yellow wire running to what seems to be that igntion cut of switch that depresses with position of the throttle ( i.e start/run). the other side of this switch has no wire coming from it?
should this button be depressed to start, or open...
on my other outboard this switch had to be pushed in (corresponding with the neutral on the gear selector) however when the throttle is in the start position this button is not pushed in.. correct? where should the other side of this switch be wired to?
the manual push button cut out switch is disconnected.. i would guess that one of the wires goes to the stator with the red wire and the other one maybe goes to the other side of that button switch with yellow wire? or something else?
is my wiring just incomplete? i cant understand why that would give me random sparks.. any help would be greatly appreciated despite my poor description..