Saving Old Seagulls

I've got one of these under restoration at the moment.

It all came apart fairly easily, with only one head stud shearing in the crankcase, which has since been successfully drilled out without butchering the thread.

A previous owner appears to have replaced the head and base gaskets with home made ...

Hugo, on my Forty, there are through-studs from the crankcase all the way to the head. The nuts came off easily after a soak in penetrating oil. The head and barrel then required some gentle work with a rubber hammer to slide them off the studs.

Closer inspection revealed that what I thought was ...

Good morning.

I've recently become the proud(?) owner of a bargain bag of Seagulls, having been keeping an eye open for an affordable, saveable restoration project for a while, and thought that a good second move (first being to contact John at SOS to arrange manuals and spares books) would be to ...