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1976 15hp Evinrude running rough

Pandora1

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I have a 1976 evinrude 15hp (15604A) motor that just recently started running rough, sounds like it is not running on both cylinders and not having full power under load. When running and I pull the lower cylinder plug wire it runs a little rougher and when I pull the top cylinder plug wire is runs very rough and dies out. I switched the ignition coils around and pulled the plug wires again one at a time and it does the same thing. I cleaned and set the gap on the points to .020 and still not running right. Any help with a solution here is appreciated.
 
Replace points and condensors with new oem products. That ignition is hard on points and condensors. You should also switch to NGK plugs.
 
Just installed a new set of NGK B7HS spark plugs. I suspected that it would be the points and condensers, I will try that. Thanks for the input.
 
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