So frustrated..... After following all advice on here I still couldn't get the motor to run, so after much searching I found a mechanic that works on older motors. He's located at a boat salvage place in Indianapolis and all he does is fix old outboards for resale and for customers. Long story short, he calls me this morning and acts like there's no way my motor was ever running. Starts rattling off all sorts of things he's found wrong and said there's no way it was running. Said all the carb idle screws were about to fall out, missing carb hoses (which it's never had), melting in distributor, bad stator, bad rectifier........ I don't know what to do now! He didn't recommend fixing it because he admitted that he's not sure 100% what is wrong with it! Grrrrr.