Saving Old Seagulls

Has anyone found the best spanner to remove the top leg nut on the exhaust side? It is impossible to get a normal spanner or socket in there as the nut is so close to the leg on one side, and not much further from the exhaust on the other side.

Just acquired a really good 90 ENFR - but it is a long shaft, and my boat needs a standard shaft. Can the depth collar be used to raise the prop enough to effectively make it operate as a standard shaft? Or is that a bad idea?

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Just acquired what I think is one the last seagull featherweight’s made. TSEF286A2. No breather hole in exhaust, twist grip throttle, and modern locking thumbscrews. All 100% original. Appears to have had very little use - runs very sweetly and the quietest 40 I have ever heard running. Great ...

Yep, I think I will leave it be. It just is so willing to start and run. Best featherweight I have ever had!

Many thanks for that - very helpful.

The featherweight starts a treat - literally first pull from cold. I have noticed that when you turn the fuel off, it strokes faster on the last 30 seconds of fuel. So maybe it is 4 stroking when the fuel is on, and as the fuel starts to run out, the mixture ...

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I have returned to a Seagull after years of disloyalty with a couple of small Suzuki's. I have a great 40 featherweight which had a dead ignition, but swapped it out for a Wipac mk4 with recoil and it's all good now. Still on a 10:1 carb. I have noticed that the needle screw is not level with ...

Just spotted this on Gumtree. Does anyone want a real challenge?

http://www.gumtree.com/p/boats-kayaks-j ... 1124582852

In superb condition - probably the quietest most refined and best engineered air cooled small outboard ever made. No faults - it is perfect and has been really well looked after and maintained.

Collect from South Devon - offers around £300

Yep - a seagull smokes like a cigar too...

My two favourite seagulls have gotta be 40plus with clutch, and Curlew (the latter I covet - yet to find a working one having let a good one go years ago, not realising just how nice it was!)

I thought I'd kicked the habit of these engines for good - I retained one nice featherweight for nostalgia. I dabbled around other old outboards, which of course were more sophisticated, much quieter, more powerful, and of course, less messy. Not wanting to buy a new hyper expensive 4 stroke, I had ...

Nice one on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/British-seagu ... 2518.l4276

But look the poor thing being over revved in neutral - ouch for the 170 bearings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iqRuJ0 ... kg&index=1

Sounds good news - I will contact John when he's back. Yes, will try and get this right as it is very rare and a nice one to have. This one is quite late - locking thumbscrews and twist grip throttle, silver paint and "Seagull 4" blue logo on it.

Is it rare for the ignition units to fail?

phil wrote:Points likely need cleaning. Sorry don't know the flywheel routine. Tried google yet? Sometimes surprising what you can find there.

No points as it is a sealed unit I am afraid

Managed to get the flywheel off quite easily using wd40 and the conventional method used for older seagulls. Came off first tap on flywheel nut - so nothing damaged!

Hard to see whats wrong as you say - HT lead has one slight nick out of it, but only a tiny bit on the rubber casing. I really need ...

Hi, just recently acquired a late seagull curlew. It won't start at all - I have tried all the obvious things - new spark plug, checked gap, fresh fuel mix, cleaned carb etc.

Unusually the spark is almost non-existent - undetectable - just a tiny pulse if you put your finger there rather than any ...