Saving Old Seagulls

Nice

Gannet wrote:Hi Chris(?),
You mention your little 40. Is it an FV,FVP or LS, or is it a later one?
Thanks
Jeremy

Its year of manufacture was september 1976, one month older than me.... l have to check and come back to you.

Hi from pembs here as well, little 40 used for trolling for bass/seaweed....

Guys I don't know but for no specific reason I don't like those tubes. OK it is supposed that the pump pushes the water only up to the level of the outlet. Indeed but I doubt if anyone has taken into account the friction added because of the additional tube. In such occasion I would reduce the diam...

Pat, have you got link? Thanks

Thanks Pat, l'll check that out. I know when l did motocross you could get stickers to put on the engine block so that you could see engine temps, so l might try the two together.

I troll for bass but l've always gone as slow as l can whilst maintaining a full tail of cooling water. The engine is a featherweight running 10:1. This year l want to troll slower. Has anyone checked engine temps with a half flow coming out or so, is there much of a difference? In my mind l think t...

Get onto the spare parts section on here. http://www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/buy_spares/buy_spares.htm Grab about 3 One to go on your motor. one to zip tie onto your tiller arm for a spare. and keep the last in your tool box. Ive posted up a pic of my century showing a spare spring. Keep a spare ...

Thanks H-A and Charles, got it going secong pull this morning. :) I took the cover off the top of the flywheel which had two inspection holes, l blew threw with compressed air, sprayed some WD40 on everything l could see, let soak for a bit then used the Mrs hair dryer to clear out the WD and warm e...

Thanks guys, l'll try as suggested.

No it wasn't running, literally in for a second or two l did manage to flush the cooling system with my hose adapter.

Any suggestion on cleaning the electrics without having to remove the flywheel, l did give it a good blast with some wind in a bottle to help push any moisture out.

Sorry, yes unfortuntely salt water.

After a shocker of a fishing trip and several items failing on me l managed to drop my featherweight (serial number F114Jj6) in the tide this morning for about a second or two.. I now can't get the engine to start. Rightly or wrongly l have carried out the following Changed spark plug. Changed fuel ...

Great, when you say "as run" what do you mean?

Does anyone use these, have you noticed any difference since fitted?

Where is the best place to buy?

Thanks