Saving Old Seagulls

many thank,s billyboy.

when fitting a new gearcap gasket do i still use gasket sealer.

does the rotor actually sit on the jointing plate

identical to your,s HA,and i found that the motor had been inverted as it was being carried up the ladder at the harbour wall. it is an esc model but no drawings for it in the part,s book near,est to it is the silver century 75. had her out to,day plug out when back into the harbour no water did fin...

i have a model 75,esc 181 hh1 having a lot of trouble trying to get her out of drive, clutch fork dosent want to go into nuetral unless pushed down very hard. took the prop of and looked at the part,s book it said there should be a rubber oil seal on mine there is a brass one. would the brass one be...

the end of the fuel line where it joins the banjo,can see fuel leaking from here,the crimp is fairly loose is it possible to steep in hot water and then push the fuel pipe further on don't see the point of putting any kind of sealant on it as petrol will surely eat it,s way through.

as above fitting new impellor discovered there is no joint plate exhaust flange to gear housing, looked at an older seagull this one had one in it made out of cork. looked at the owners spares book and it shows one in there with the impellor resting on top of it.

found the problem, the rotor cracked right through and only one vane left on it, many thanks HA and everyone else who gave advice. also going to re-new all the bolts with s/s ones. problem solved .

the water jacket looks fine,nothing escaping from there, thinking maybe the water pipe has come loose at the top.

finally got it done,tapped a new thread with the 5/16th tap, new bolt married the thread no problem cleaned all the waterways, reassembled ran it in the test tank, dear dear water coming out but less than what there was, now it is coming out of the top of the exhaust silencer.

ah well gave it a go,small drill through the centre of the bolt looks like i went to far,sure it,s went through the ally casing. was a lot more carefull with the other drill bits,thing is i thing there is still a sliver of the seized bolt round the sides will the 5/16 tap get rid of that, if so that...

dont see anyone on the forum near me, i stay in inverkeithing fife bonnie scotland.

got the bolt glowing, vice gripes on then it snapped clean with the face of the block :x . seen a tool called easy out but will this be strong enough to free the bolt,also I'm not very mechanical so what exactly do i do with a 5/16 tap, i,m guessing it will put the opposite way thread in the seized ...

how long can you safely heat the block up to get a seized bolt out, it is one of the four that hold the water jacket on,don't want to heat to much in case i damage the ally. i have had to take it off to clean the water passage.

is it safe enough, to clean out the waterways in the jacket with a small drill going slowly back and forward?if so this will save me a lot of time,as they are bady crusted up,with old gasket sealer and an abundance of salt water brick hard deposits.