Re: 6 HP Evinrude serial 00051087
Agree, move this to the Evinrude forum and you will get better answers faster but, check compession and spark, you will need a compression tester and a spark checker, both available at an auto parts store, the psark needs to jump a 7/16'' gap to be good and compression should be somewhere around a 100 and within 10% on both cylinders.
If you have spark and compression then move onto the next thing but don't just geuss and start throwing parts at it.
Also a factory manual is highly reccomended, NOT Seloc, Clymers or anything on CD.