Torium 30 - Troubleshooting HELP!

[Quoc_Pham]

my nephew was 12.  we were at the dock.  a guy had the cowling of his outboard off and he was checking wires.  i asked it i could help and asked what was up, and he said he couldn't get the engine started.  i said, "where's the lanyard for the kill switch?" and he just rolled his eyes.  he had forgotten the lanyard!!!  i said, "don't worry, everyone does this once!" as we were walking back up the dock, richie says, "you never did that, did you, uncle alan?"  looked at him and said "nope......".

[louisurfer]

So I got in a 1st gen TOR 20 for relatively cheap on eBay supposedly serviced before put in storage. Had a lot of cranking resistance.  Found that the drags were installed in the wrong order, dried grease gummed up all over, and... the dog retainer was installed upside down just like here, I wouldn't have figured it out w/o this thread!