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Dog gone it's been tough trying to find info on this motor!
Anyway this motor has been in the corner of my garage for 12 yrs. Finally determined to get it running come hell or high water.
Enter hell and high water!
Problems were no fire and the carb was roached. I'd cleaned the points really...
I'm going thru this engine and found the pee tube fitting which screws into the block was clogged. That's a pretty small orifice so thought to put a bigger one in (shown in pic). I wonder if this larger orifice might cause a cavitation problem in the water pump? There's nothing like modifying...
Hi All - new to this forum.
I picked up this 9.5 and was told by the owner he'd taken it to a mechanic who said it'd be too costly to fix. Got it for $25 so who could pass it up?
The thing started the first pull and immediately hit high rpm's with throttle at idle, a lot of white smoke..I can't...
