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    Broken Piston

    I've been working on this old 1966 80 horse evinrude trying to get all cylinders working and after posting a couple of questions finally pulled the head to find the #4 piston has a piece missing on the exaust side edge. About 1\16 x 1 inch. It amazes me that I had 85 lbs. of compression. Whats...
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    Reeds

    I own an old 1966 80 horse Evinrude that I am haveing problems getting 2 of the 4 cyl. to work. I have fire and gas to all 4, 110 lbs of compression in the two good cyl., 100 in another and 85 in the last. Two questions, Can the reeds be affecting compresion and how tight are they to be against...
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    Stainless steel wires??

    I have a fireing problem on my 1966 80 horse Evinrude. The cap and wires are suspect but I am told these are SS wires that rarely fail. My wires , if looked at from the cut end by the plug, look to be copper or brass in color. Is that normal? Also, Upon cap itspection there were was a gold...
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    1966 80 horse evenrude

    Looking for advice on this oldie but goodie 1966 80 horse beauty. Starts okay But idles rough, With 2 warm cylnders, 2 cold cylnders. Reving it up it smoothes out and all cylnders get warm. Carb rebuild , new plugs and points and condensers and I still can only get about 1\3 speed at full...
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