Saving Old Seagulls

what is your plug gap, contact breaker gap? if either too small it will fire early, on the compression stroke, also any high resistance contact probably around the plug seat could cause problems too. regarding the choke shutter they are brass on earlier motors, but if it 'aint broke.....

hi , its cast iron, which is difficult to weld, you may be able to solder/braze it or repair carefully with epoxy resin, depending how it has broken, but being quite an important bit, you wouldn't want it to fall off in the middle of the med. look on ebay for a replacement block or get some oars. go...

could the cap have been machined to go on the other way round?

i have an efpwl, model 60, which is in very good working order, and is cosmetically sound, surplus to my requirement, when i first bought it i was going to to chop it down but have since changed my mind. i now use an efpc which is still a little big for my boat, so a late model featherweight (i do l...

shame that, i never run my motor for too long at high revs with the clutch disengaged, because there is no load on the engine. you may have simply overrevved it for too long. my forty plus runs at about half throttle speed when pushing a boat at full throttle, if you know what i mean

have you got any left? i'll have one. ta, chris.

the other thing my uncle said was that a spec. may not be able to discover the minute traces of strontium, which is why he went down the chemisty route with the lab, but it would pick up traces of nickel, cobalt chromium etc common in industrial age steel alloys, probably not present in the sword if...

being fairly interesred in rusty old relics, i've become quite interested in you're sword. very large scrap metal processors often have,or have access to spectorgraphs that are very good at analysing metals, however my uncle, a retiered environmental chemist says that during his working life he ofte...

Thanks for the reply niander. Is the injector devices' water source the tell tale? does it blast in or trickle? and most important, I suppose, does it work? I have at last found where i have read about the tube thing coming from the carb (on the old forum pages). it turns out that it is a noise redu...

i'm very pleased with my new EFPC. it fits my new dinghy a treat, it also means i won't have to cut down my EFPWL which i've become so fond of. After a thorogh tank clean/repaint, new fuel line and gear oil changing exersize it started in half a pull. fantastic! It does seem even noisier than my EFP...

wouldn't the exhaust gasses (if there were any) blow the carb off?

it sounds exactly what i'm after, if all goes to plan, i haven't got the bits you want, but will get them or would be happy to reach a deal if you would send photos i'd be glad, you could phone me on 07979856467 or email me at; redclyffeconstruction?vodafone.net ( i've put ? instead of @ to avoid sp...

saving-parts-of-old-seagulls gearbox top and bottom might go quite quick

i have an efpwl which i have been told may be the wrong engine for my 10'-12' ply folding hull that i am building, wrong perhaps because its too long, i can get around that, in a number of ways, but possibly wrong because it is too powerfull. if i were to put a five blade prop on it given the size o...

i noticed that a business called mossesgulls was for sale on ebay, i was tempted to bid but don't really know enough about outboards, two strokes fine but not the prop/boat bit, any way the vendor had a seagull orientated username, i assumed it was he trying to be helpfull and thought bugger it afte...