GOOD NEWS. . . . The PICTURE UPLOAD FUNCTION IS WORKING !!! The tech folks at the parent company have been able to remedy the issue. You can upload pictures once again. Thank you for your patience.
Yeah I'm starting to wonder about the reeds, I have already pulled the carbs and cleaned them, all the jets looked pretty good to begin with and the clean out accomplished nothing.
If I dissconect the sparkplug lead to the top cylinder the engine will idle on just the bottom cylinder just...
Just running badly at idle, I cant set the linkages to the factory recomendations. Compression has been verified. I only visually tested spark, never used a spark tester before, guess I'll have to get one.
Yep, measured C-C. I re-bastardized the whole thing and its now running exactly as badly as it was before I started messing with the linkage, so I guess thats a small win.
I have a 2001 johnson 50hp that has been running like crap. Cleaned out the carbs, and did a bunch of the ususal checks with no improvement. Anyhow, in the trouble shooting process I got around to noticing my throttle linkage was way out of spec so I decided to fix that and see if it made any...