Saving Old Seagulls

By buying a 102 on ebay that didn't go - google search and lots of help and advice from John as well as some parts and it was a runner! Thanks John - then a Siver century not run for 10 years and help from Vic on this forum and its a runner
Whatever would we do without SOS!
Thanks to John, Vic and ...

Right then - here is the report
1 Removed carb
2 stripped carb (again)
3 looked through jet and I can see light
4 pushed COPPER wire through jet (I was always told not to do that when I first started work on engines)
5 Reassembled everything
6 Put engine in test tank (aren't the council good to give ...

thanks for that Vic - I'll give it a go and post the result later
Ian

I have a silver century with a two jet amal carb on it. It has the 25:1 conversion jet fitted as supplied by Seagull.
1 It is a pain to start - usually needing a sniff of WD 40 in the intake before running.
2 It will then run fine but only with the choke flap in place - take the choke off and it ...