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by Skollag
Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:15 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Renewing HT lead on Featherweight with electronic ignition ?
Replies: 0
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Renewing HT lead on Featherweight with electronic ignition ?

Does anyone have experience of renewing the ignition lead on a Featherweight 45 with electronic flywheel assembly?

Everything I read puts me off doing this essential job but maybe it is not as bad as it is told?
by Skollag
Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:51 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Featherweight overheating when every cure has been tried.
Replies: 3
Views: 7649

Thanks for the useful reply 40TPI.

I should add that I am a land lubber where Seagulls are concerned and my Featherweight is a whole new experience and learning curve for me. The one thing I never imagined would be that it had been wrongly assembled. I gather it had been kept as a spare engine in ...
by Skollag
Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:15 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Featherweight overheating when every cure has been tried.
Replies: 3
Views: 7649

Featherweight overheating when every cure has been tried.

I am a new owner of an elderly Featherweight 45. On a dustbin test, this engine had no water circulation at all, only steam came out of the outlet hole in the block and ominous noises like a steam iron. :(

I got as much info as I could from the internet and literature. I backflushed the water ...