Grandpa's Boat (My Project)

[Coryy]

I highly recommend that you skip grounding your lights directly to the trailer and run an individual ground wire from each light to a central point and then to the trailer harness.

This will allow you to utilize the wired ground from the tow vehicle and not rely on the trailer as a part of the grounding system. 99% of the trailer lights I have ever worked on the major issue was the ground. This is especially true if you have a tilt style trailer.

Just my $.02

[TylerS]

Well, interesting turn of events last night. So a buddy came over and, thanks to a bit of liquid courage and grease-wrench fortitude, we got the spark plugs out without damaging anything. We don't have a compressing tester, but there definitely felt like similar pressure over each cylinder from placing a finger over them. I completely drained the gas, and mixed some new stuff. Then hooked the rabbit ears to the engine, turned on the hose, and figured we'd see what happened. Sure enough, it fired. A nice puff of blue smoke. Tried it a few more times but the starter was dropping down right away. Figured out my batter didn't have enough juice. Hooked up the charger last night and tried again. Got it to turn over and fire a few times, but it won't start. I'm guessing based on all the problems I've had with other various combustion engines in my lifetime that a thorough cleaning of the carbs would be a good place to start. Might need to pick up a 6- or 12-pack of liquid courage before I tackle that bear, though.

[delcecchi]

Well, interesting turn of events last night. So a buddy came over and, thanks to a bit of liquid courage and grease-wrench fortitude, we got the spark plugs out without damaging anything. We don't have a compressing tester, but there definitely felt like similar pressure over each cylinder from placing a finger over them. I completely drained the gas, and mixed some new stuff. Then hooked the rabbit ears to the engine, turned on the hose, and figured we'd see what happened. Sure enough, it fired. A nice puff of blue smoke. Tried it a few more times but the starter was dropping down right away. Figured out my batter didn't have enough juice. Hooked up the charger last night and tried again. Got it to turn over and fire a few times, but it won't start. I'm guessing based on all the problems I've had with other various combustion engines in my lifetime that a thorough cleaning of the carbs would be a good place to start. Might need to pick up a 6- or 12-pack of liquid courage before I tackle that bear, though.

Take pictures of each step in dis-assembly. It doesn't cost anything and can be a great help when you can't remember how it goes back together.

[Ufatz]

And after a 12-pack who knows what those dudes might forget! Ha Ha Ha!

[loadmaster]

Do not know if this will help, Ijust dragged a 1967 6hp that has been sitting in my basement for 17 years. Changed plugs new gas with a little sea foam. Pulled the plugs gave each cylinder a shot of fogging agent and pulled the starter rope a few times. Just to make sure I was not wasting my time I gave it a small shot of starting fluid it started for 5-10 seconds. Hooked up the gas primed the bulb to make sure I had gas in carb for proper lube and shot a quick shot of starting fluid it started but started to die gave it another shot and after a couple of more times engine started just fine and ran great. Might want to try before rebuilding carb