Saving Old Seagulls

Thanks all! That is a lot of good info.

I will have to strip the gearbox and then I will contact John for the price of the spare parts.

The motor has always been a long shaft - my father bought it new in '62 (I still have the bill of sale) and it has been in the family all the time. The number ...

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One nice afternoon my 40+ started to behave as if it had a clutch. The motor was running, but not the prop.

As shown in the pictures the axle going down in the gearbox has become round, I suppose it should be square. Right?

It seems as if I need to change the lower end of the drive ...

50 years ago my father bought a 40+ which was fuelled by a pressurized system. It is shown on the nostalgia pages.

http://www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/nostalgia/images/british%20seagull0007.jpg

The motor was sold without the standard tank, it was replaced with a carrying handle and the remote ...

Quite right Charles, a side bracket for a 40+. My father had i made in the early 60's for the then new Seagull I am still using.

Originally it had a flat piece of mahogany to mount the standard bronze bracket on, but after a few years he realized that less is more and had it remade.

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Is there anybody out there who can guess what this is (well, maybe not so hard). And I don't mean the workmate

Just wanted to share now when the forum is up and running again.

Regards,

Henrik

Hi, apologies for a really dumb suggestion:

Did you open the air intake screw in the filler cap of the fuel tank? The only reason I ask is that I did just that last summer. The only way I could get my 40+ to run that day was by shutting the choke half-way. Next day when I remembered the air intake ...

Iconic

(As every Seagull is)

Henrik in Sweden

On remote tanks:

In 1962 my father bought a 40+ without the black tank. For an additional cost the standard tank was replaced with a 10-litre steel tank with a brass pump, a rubber hose and a bayonet-type connector for the fuel line of the motor. The hose was connected to the motor, about ten ...

I was thinking of the missing locking pin - I just hung the motor on the bracket to take the picture. Well spotted :D

Well, I was wearing a lot more than the shirt and a lifejacket, the temperature in the air and the water were both about 8 C. Brrr! So if the motor had gotten the shirt off my back ...

Anyone see what's wrong in the picture? (Not the rag or the twisted mooring line)

Henrik

Thanks for the image handling info!

They are called Forty Plus for the simple reason that they start despite being 40+ years old.

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I put the 40+ my father bought in '62 on my little toy (an old Soling). Works like a charm. But i Tied a rag around the lower ...

In the Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh) the hero (can't remember his name right know) is in Crete during WWII. When Crete is abandoned he escapes in an old rowing boat with a Seagull on the transom. At least in the TV version.

Henrik