Today was both rewarding and frustrating. The plan was to come out this morning and fire up the engine. Only she would not start. Cranked and cranked and cranked but no fire. Not even a sputter. Pulled the plugs and took a look. of course they were fouled. Cleaned them, but them back in and nothing. At this point I was ready to drag it to the mechanic and say I was done. However, after lunch came back to it and got some help from my daughter so that I could pull the plugs and see if they were sparking. Well they were. So, now what is going on. We have a half tank of gas and spark so next thing to check was gas flow the carb. However, before doing that I noticed that the choke plate was not closed all the way. So, while crankeing I pushed the choke plate all the way closed. The motor fired right up !!! Wow. Everything worked fine. Prop engaged correctly and there were NO LEAKS wow. we might actually have this figured out. I properly drained the cooling system in prep for tonights sub freezing plunge. After about 4 hours I decided to see if the motor would start again hopefully more easily. I also purchased some B-12 Chemtool to clean the throats and the shafts on the carb. So I hooked the cooling system back up and turned on the water flow and turned the key. She fired right up !!! Everything checked ok so I shut down and drained the system again.
Installed the boarding ladder over the transom. Next step is to install the tow rings on the back. Then have to seal up the stern drive bellows.
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