Saving Old Seagulls

Thanks for that info, I have plenty of good 160cc Victa motors. Will get to it one day & see if its got spark & clean it up.

Couple more pics that didn't fit in.

Any body got an ideas on what this is/was. & what the motor is. It has plenty of compression & that's as far as iv gone yet. Found in the local scrap yard thismorning.

Condensers either breakdown & dead short, or eventualy dry out & loose there capacitance value. I did have a Villiers coil on a Seagull that would start & run & when it was hot stop & refuse to start un till it cooled down. It was a faulty coil in this case.

What an exelent idea turning exess flywheel covers into clocks, especialy "the best outboard in the world" ones.

The coil is running of the primary winding of the original Villiers coil. The whole idea is no battery required.

The yellow wire is just soldered to where the points are conected to the coil.

When over at Smokestack saw coil ign without a battery. So thaught id give it a go using a COP from a Ford Falcon BA model & an Australian vehicle & theres plenty of them in the wreckers. Its a coil only & has a resistance of .5 ohm. Wired as i have in the circuit on a Villiers coil it g...

The black pump is a Vac/Pressure pump capable of 20Psi, started with that only but im a air hog so fitted the second one. The blue pump is an aquarium pump 10Psi. These are diaphram pumps so there is no oil involved. As some one has already stated the snorkel has a purge valve in the bottom for the ...

Hi Robin, this is what i used to use to scrub the bottom of my yacht. It just uses a couple of 12V diaphram compressors, dive hose & a modified snorkel that has a non return valve in it. Its a total loss type system & works well to 12Ft depth, it draws about 10Amps on a 12V battery. Dont hav...

I guess in most areas there is a certain amount of mean spirit in collectors. I had a small collection of vintage stationary engines, collectors wanted them for next to nothing. They were all in good runing order, & i was lucky to find a person who had a museum of farm machinery. Since these wer...

Yes spark plugs do wear out. The center electrode wears & when its rounded it takes a higher voltage to fire the mixture. In cars it usualy shows as intermittent missing on acelleration. Due to the relatively cheep price of new plugs its hardly worthy while filing the center electrode & re g...

Luckilly its not a structural piece, should be easily welded by a competent ally welder.

If its not a Filthy beast, then its not a Seagull. If its a bitsa who cares solong as it goes & reliable, then Enjoy a very practical outboard.

Corosion will do that to the drive. What surised me is i have a 40+ crank ruined due to the square almost rounded.