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SabrToothSqrl
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When the water level was such that it was ingested, did it possibly get into any other area shaft would affect the spark? Ie the grey electrical box?
I suck water into my 951 all the time lol. Usually can clear it while still on the water.
I suck water into my 951 all the time lol. Usually can clear it while still on the water.
Hold throttle wide open and crank ?
Try fogging oil as a starting fluid. (mine seems to like it when cold)
Daam the starting fluid should have caught ! That stuff is crazy.
Stick another set of plugs in the caps and lay them on the engine while cranking with the old plugs still in the engine so you can see if its firing under load!
Then we can say you for sure have spark under load.
Check the gap! its supposed to be something like a millimeter or less isn't it guys ?
Try fogging oil as a starting fluid. (mine seems to like it when cold)
Daam the starting fluid should have caught ! That stuff is crazy.
Stick another set of plugs in the caps and lay them on the engine while cranking with the old plugs still in the engine so you can see if its firing under load!
Then we can say you for sure have spark under load.
Check the gap! its supposed to be something like a millimeter or less isn't it guys ?
yes just put them anywhere that they are both touching the same piece of metal.
Remember that in this machine that the spark jumps between the wires and NOT from the wire to the engine.
So you need both plugs to be grounded to the same piece of metal ( the head) so that you get a complete circuit and see the spark.
battery will say 13 V and charger says its good.
However once you put it under load................................ 9V and no spark
Mine tricks me all the time like that !!
Surface charge is 13 v, Actual usefull charge isn't enough.
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Bnelson
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Screw plugs into cylinder head, then ground one of the plug caps to the ground post, then put a fresh plug in the other empty plug cap, hold the spark plug electrode against a bolt on the cylinder head and hit the start button, you should see a bright blue spark from the visible plug.... Then switch plug caps and test again....
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.020-.024" or 0.5-0.6mm They should be close enough from the box to fire up and run
Bnelson
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Sounds like you did this the correct way and you have no spark.... No spark =No go... Check a few different plugs this way to make sure it wasn't just a fouled plug, if you never see a spark it's time to look elsewhere.... No wonder it would never fire... Gotta check simple things first
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Nope wont work like that
The ground post isn't grounded. Its just a floating piece of metal not attached to any ground.
The spark jumps between the two wires and Not to ground or the engine block,
Leave both old plugs in the engine
Put good plugs in the caps
Place the plugs on the engine head while they are in the caps and make sure each of the spark plug metal body's are touching a bare piece of metal ( like the head of one of the bolts) and crank away
Actually here's another trick.
IF you have no spark.
take the plugs out of the engine and that will take the load off of the starter.
Crank it and and check for spark again while there is hardly any load on the starter and the battery voltage is a bit higher then when the plugs were in.
(make sure you don't have the spark plugs near the mist coming out of the plug holes)
IF you have no spark.
take the plugs out of the engine and that will take the load off of the starter.
Crank it and and check for spark again while there is hardly any load on the starter and the battery voltage is a bit higher then when the plugs were in.
(make sure you don't have the spark plugs near the mist coming out of the plug holes)
Re-reading.. Might have mis-read, This is fast paced stuff
With the one wire on the ground post and holding the other one on the engine with a plug I don't think it will fire because that would almost be like having an open circuit. (unless I'm missing something? ) Its not like,,, well any other ignition system that normally jumps to ground.
You could however put one plug cap on one of the plugs and then stick a spare in the other cap and lay it on the engine. That way your only holding one and the other one is sort of attached to ground.
That means the spark energy will go through one wire , through the plug and then jump one gap, travel through the head and then to the other plug and jump that gap and then go down the other wire.
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