Sorry to beat this dead horse..Carb started to drip again fouling back three cylinder's and plug's.I bought a re-built carb from "Guaranteed Carburator's" through "FLY FISH MARINE" FOR $267.00. and installed it.It's supposed to be tested and tuned for my engine pryor to shipping..Had great review's...At first all seemed ok with carb, yet engine wouldn't quite fire off and stay running.(no dripping into intake as before).Yet engine just wouldn't start.Went and got a new coil($145.00) thinking it could be bad as one of three test failed to give proper results required in manual.That didn't seem to help either. Checked coil pickup and it passed.Still getting fire to plug's and manual says that either the modual will work(fire) or it won't. Had dist. loose to try and check timing a while back when engine was still starting, so it could still be moved by hand with alittle pressure and woundered if it could have sliped some. So I tried to move it alittle one way or the other to see if engine would fire.No good there.By the way my brand new timming light quit working while I was trying to check timming that day.Don't understand why, or why I need to shunt those two white wire's on dist. but it calls for that.Also says to un-plug the shift interrupter wire's and cross connect them back togeather during his timing check.While I was playing with the timing and trying to find a point where engine would try to fire, I crossed the shift interrupter wires and shunted the two white wire's .In doing so, it seemed as if the fire was taken from the plug's because the engine quit trying to fire until I replaced the interupter wire's as normally would be.Still woundering about my compression since it was checked cold (couldn't get engine running at time)...Last check (cold) with all plug's removed and set at WOT,#1 read at 160psi and the other three pumped up to 170 psi...Also #1 is always dry and black with soot, while the other's are soaked...Also noted that a few time's engine would almost stay running, but when I let off key it would shut off and spew fuel out top of carb.Really starting to worry about compression problem's...The starter I replaced was off e-bay and was only $68.00 new..Could it not be spinning engine fast enough to build enough compression for start-up? Sorry everyone, I've looked the web over but couldn't find any other site's to bother that was as professional as you guy's to bother.Thanks again