Saving Old Seagulls

coil in the oven, new woodruff key, points reset, flywheel and recoil reinstalled, fresh fuel, and you know it..................she's alive again, thanks for all the help, took her out yesterday for a couple of hours and she sings

It wasn't pretty, fingers crossed

Hi Charles,
yep it was running when it hit the water. Seems to turn over easily and has good compression. So will try new key before going deeper. Any ideas where to get one? I'm waiting to speak to John at SOS first.

Hi
thanks for all suggestions. Stripped everything out, cleaned it all, then found the key "d shaped pin" that couples the top of the crankshaft to the flywheel had sheared. I can only presume that as the engine was submerged whilst running, water entered exhaust/carb forcing it to stop, but the ...

Took my perfectly well running forty plus out for it's first run in the sea since I bought it, and I had not properly secured the mount (entirely my fault) turned round sharply and the engine took a dive. Got it out in seconds. At first there was no spark, but have now clean points, changed plug ...