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Originally Posted by bigdog
NoBozo,
I checked the fuel line at Card, where big nut attaches to the Carb. THere is a Spring in there but no filter ! Mmmmmmmmmmmm........
Question, if there was a filter in there to trap particles, wouldn't that clog up and stall and/or shut down the engine ? WIll get filter at marine supply store.
BD
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Small filters will clog up very fast and shut down the engine. This little filter was intendd as a filter of last resort. The main fuel filter/water seperator was intended to do the major filtering. A missing filter indicates someone removed it to solve a problem tempoarily..and never replaced it. The dirt that the filter WOULD have stopped..is now in the carb.
BTW: An ignition coil that is old/faulty CAN overheat (and expand internally) and short itself out. When the coil is COLD on a cold engine, It MAY actually work...until it overheats and shorts itself out again. Everything else on the engine has been checked or replaced ...may as well replace the coil.
DOES the engine
run fine when it is COLD..as in the morning when you first start it up..? ...ie, before the coil heats up. The coil is mounted/clamped to the engine, and engine heat will be conducted to the coil as the engine heats up....... NB