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1965 Johnson 6 horse outboard motor Model CD22

schmitty0

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"Engine has run beautiful for

"Engine has run beautiful for years; until it had a leak in the cover of the fuel pump. We have replaced the gasket in the fuel pump. The engine is now very hard to start, when I do get it started it will run at a high RPM only and want to die if I back off the throttle. If I keep it at high RPM it will run for a while then quit as if you hit a kill switch.
Any ideas?"
 
Have you pulled the flywheel a

Have you pulled the flywheel and checked for bad / cracked ignition coils??
 
"Ah, OK I'll do that next.

"Ah, OK I'll do that next.
We did change the points and condensers and spark plugs are new.
Thanks for the tip.
Dave"
 
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