8N QUIT AND NOW WON'T START

Actually.. a spare spark plug hooked into the wire and held with threads grounded may be a little less surprising.

Got fuel flow thru carb? Check bowl drain.

Soundguy

I wouldn't suggest my dad's old method of just holding on to the wire. His favorote past time was grabbing me when he was checking for a spark.If I screamed loud enough, good spark.

15 yrs ago, I bought a set of Pontiac V-8 hot-rod copper core sparkie wires for the moulded "L" sparkie boot. Still have 4-wires and my original "hot-rod" sparkie wires are soft and flexable and don't cause a miss..... ....Dell, yer self-appointed sparkie-meister

If you have spark after checking it, I would start looking at fuel issues. See if you are getting fuel down to the carb. Pull the line at the elbow on the carb. Should have a good steady stream. No stream, then back up to the strainer above the bowl. There is also a strainer in the elbow on the carb itself as well as one in the bottom of the fuel tank. The one in the tank is less likely to be a problem.

Check also to make sure you have plenty of fuel in the tank. You need to open the fuel knob all the way up. If just open a couple of rounds, you could be just low of fuel. You can look in the tank and see fuel and think "it's low but there's some there". There's a little reserve in there if only open 2 rounds. Has to be all the way open to get that last bit of fuel.