[Public-List] A-Bomb (Solution and Thank You)

Wed May 26 08:25:21 PDT 2010

Jock 

 Great to hear it was a simple fix. When I first got the A30 and A4, I
made a lot of improvements to the engine chasing down problems, fixing
things that weren't broke but surely will break!
  I didn't know much about it when I started, but now feel much more
confident that I know how to maintain, operate and repair the engine.

  I would highly recommend Moyer Marine's seminar on the A4. I don't
know if he still does it, but I went to a two-day seminar he held on the
Eastern Shore several years ago.

Mike
Rinn Duin #272 

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Subject: Re: [Public-List] A-Bomb (Solution and Thank You)

Thanks to everyone who suggested possible solutions for my problem
getting the engine started. I spoke to John Vosbury and he suggested to
start with opening the bolt at the bottom of the carb and draining out
any junk. Due to my finely honed mechanic skills, my next question to
him was, Where is the carburetor? It turned out that on my boat the
placement of the batteries makes it difficult to access the bolt in
question. I mentioned the suggestion that it was a problem with the coil
and the coil looked really old. He said test that first since it is much
easier. So I unplugged the wire from the top of the distributor and laid
it on the block and got my daughter to turn over the engine. It sparked
so that was good. When I went to reattach it to the distributor cap, the
other end fell off the coil. It was apparently loose. I guess I had
knocked it at some point. I put both ends back on and it started up and
ran like a champ. I had checked the wires to the spark plugs but never
thought about that wire.
George, don't know if that might help you, but it turned out to be an
easy fix for me. Hopefully you will have something just as easy.
Jock

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