8n!

My 8n has no power when it warms up. I have to let it rev up with the clutch in so I can get it to back up a foot if I am lucky. Then winds down and have to wait until it revs up again to get going. I have new plugs, new coil (read somewhere in here that could be a bad coil), new wires, carb has been running a little rich but seems to be a little better after some adjustments, points were new but have another to try. What next?

Thanks
Pat

Thanks for all your replies.

The N-Engine is sooo gooood, it'll run fine with sparkies miss-wired, until you try to get some power outta it.

Fireing order is 1,2,4,3 CCW. 4-nipple frontmount or 5 nipple sidemount the same. Ususally its the 3 & 4 that are reversed..... ...Dell

I checked on that as I did that once before. They are in the right firing order. Could the distributor need to be replaced? It was not done when it was rebuilt a couple of years ago.

Thanks
Pat

hth

Mountainman...CA

Get out there and hand manipulate your carb linkage the governor should "fight you". If doubtful, un-snap the springloaded carb to gov rod (eather end) and manipulate the carb some more until you are satisfied the carb is responding to your hand linkage input. The carb governor arm should also be moving in response to your hand carb input.

The other "lack of power" suspect is low engine compression. Since you claim a recent engine rebuild, that's probably not the cause BUT sticky intake valves could be a "cause". But I doubt it because you are not complaining about "hard starting". Never hurts to do a compression check..... .....Dell