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just got it running. several small problems though. motor will not go into gear at anything over a very low idle and today at full throttle engine surged and jumped out of gear several times. i think it may be the clutch spring. i took the two screws behind the prop off and cleaned...
new guy here familiar with engines in general. anyways i picked up an 86 johnson 4hp and it has an intermitent spark problem. you can here one of the cylenders kick on and off. i did some reading on this forum and set the points at .020" and installed new plugs and gapped them .030". i cut a...
