Saving Old Seagulls

Wonderful but where has Bud gone? :lol: Still here! https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/686/33048769130_434507b040_c.jpg Actually got to play with another pup, early this March. Had a couple canoeing down the coast stop in and got weatherbound for 10 days! Checking out the falls on their way out to conti...

Thanks y'all! I got her going!!! YAY!!! :mrgreen: I fiddled with the gaps in both the plug, and the points. Closed the points gap by 0.05mm and opened the plug gap by maybe 0.02mm. (Gotta love those whisper thin feeler gauges!) :lol: She's now running just about as good as she used to do. I don't fe...

Hey again y'all! Been ages, upon ages since my last visit. (Right about the time some wannabe good Samaritan sank my lovely first-pull-start 40+.) Anyways, After a full disassembly and cleaning, and oiling and all that, I tried to get her to start. Wouldn't happen.Tried for weeks. Dried the beastie ...

I thought you could wack any of the five different mags on as long as you have the matching flywheel with it. The wipac (mk2) seems to be considered the most reliable. Edit: Did you just change your post? I thought you asked if you could put a later mag on. I'm going quite barmy :shock: Sorry 'bout...

Update Well, it's been drying for a couple more days, and still no go. So, just now, I took apart both ends of the HT lead. Before, I had only cleaned the visible end of the spring, and cleaned the pin, not knowing about the screw at the other end of the spring, that digs into the HT lead. So I und...

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Looks like it's gonna sit beside the wood stove for a couple days.... Still won't go. And yup, Wipac 2. Seems to have a good spark at the plug now. And I took off the carb again, cleaned everything I could, but I can't get the float off to get to the fuel needle though. The pin that is used to hold ...

Thanks for the ideas guys! First thing I did was hose everything off with fresh water for more than an hour. I just turned the hose on into the holes in the flywheel, and let it run to flush away any salt. After that, and after all was dry, I used copious quantities of methyl alcohol to finish the j...

HT lead off, contacts cleaned. Pin on the spring was nasty. Needed abuse from emery file to get white coating off. Letting everything sit in sun to dry.

Cheers!

Ahhh! Good thinking! And the 40+ is a 1977 with a Bing carb.

Thanks!

Hey guys! Been a while, (as usual!) lol! Anyhoo, got a sad tale for ya's. Unbeknownst to me, a wannabe good Samaritan tried to "rescue" my 40+ from my "sinking" skiff. The skiff is a 14 foot aluminum Lund, with enough styro flotation under the seats, and in rear pods, that it is ...

Hi guys! Last post from me on this topic! I promise! And yeah, yer right, I do have the dog, you guys, and a big ol' fat orange cat too! So I guess I not REALLY alone on my deserted island. :P Anyways, I started to cut up the log that is closest in the picture, and lucky lucky me! It's a Western Hem...

Thanks Collector Inspector and R.A.! Your poor Staffy! I can just imagine the looks he gave ya! lol! Bud's REAL good at walking logs, so he probably would have made a GREAT tow marker! lol! https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8667/15917732418_7886a9f37e_c.jpg "Woof! If you's won't come to me, I gues...

Howdy all! I haven't posted in a while, so I figured I'd stop in and say howdy! My '77 40+ is still running like a top. ...Particularly since I actually bothered to look in the carb when flicking the little choke switchy! (Up is off, down is on!) lol! Had been running it wrong for months! :oops: Ah ...

LOL! So true! Remember the day when people who actually knew what they were talking about used to work in the Auto Parts department? :roll: Long gone; replaced by minimum wager's. :( Anyhoo, ordered 3 Champion 516's from NAPA. What a price difference though. 1 NGK A6 is $12.99 from C-Tire, and 1 Cha...