Evenrude / Elto 1.8hp

[Ed@deathwish-outboards]

I bought a 1940 Evenrude / Elto from a woman and her husband about six years ago. She said they had tried but could not get it to run. I just was going over it and there does not seem to be any spark. I has a new plug, old condenser and the points look fairly new, no sign of wear. The points were set to .20 and the plug .25 which seem good to me. All of the connections are soldered. Before I de solder everything to test the individual components does anyone have pictures or diagrams to show the correct wiring.
Thanks

[mercuryman]

Before you do that you need to check points . If you have a ohm meter, disconnect the coil wire from points and read to ground with points closed, should be less than 1 ohm. If it reads higher clean points with #400 wet or dry paper . When you get through run some stiff paper between points. 9 time out of 10 points are the problem and you can’t tell it they are good by visual inspection.

[Ed@deathwish-outboards]

Everything is soldered together. Condenser,coil and points all have soldered connections. Testing as is, I get a little discharge from the condenser and every other combination I try comes up 000. I can not find my analog tester. The coil has a plug wire soldered on near the bottom and from one side a wire going to the Points. On the opposite side is a ground coming out and soldered to one of the mounting screws from there it goes back to another soldered connection on the side of the coil. I thought I had a picture on my “stupid” phone but it must have vanished. It is an odd-ball hookup and that is why I would like to get a wiring diagram to check it against.

[mercuryman]

It sounds like it is wired correctly. Try removing the coil ground wire that will take the coil out and you can test point resistance..

[Ed@deathwish-outboards]

Getting the wires apart was no small feat. I think they used 95-5. There was no continuity at the points. After cleaning the meter zeroed out. I’ll put it back together and see if it will fire tomorrow.

[Ed@deathwish-outboards]

Got it back together and it fired on the second pull.
Thanks for the help.
Ed

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