Stop in for a cup of coffee

The engine turns over easy with a screwdriver

So I install another starter I had laying around, a known good one.

I jump the solenoid and for the first time in over 20 years. WIIIRRRRRRWIRRRRWIRRRR.

so I crank it a bit in hopes of getting the oil pump moving some more and as it's cranking i smell varnish. The fuel pump obviously still works and gushing out of the carb so I'm getting a intake manifold flooded with varnish smelling fuel with a water like thickness.

I disconnect the fuel pump and let it pump into a bucket and poured fresh fuel down the carb and I had already connected a "hot wire" to the positive side of the coil.

It turns and bucks like it wants to start but just not enough yet.

I was going to spray it with carb cleaner but I'm out of anything flammable to spray in there.

Tommorw for sure it should fire