Saving Old Seagulls

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 unit to prevent the dripping of oil into our bathwater.

(if the image fails to appear, please tell me how to post images)

Henrik in Sweden

I find the image and hosting a pain so why not try this ..
load your photos from your camera into your computer under my photos
At bottom of this box we type in is a tag called... upload attachments click on that
then Browse and find your photo in your computer memory ie my photos....click on it and open it.
then add the file


Photo apears in your post with out all that[img]bull%20bull[/img] and hosting junk

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

Henrik

Thanks for the image handling info!

Nope - give up . . .

Mooring line wrapped around transom bracket?

Is It that you have not put your pin in?

Or that you have not attached your blue safety line?

H-A

P.S. Where you wearing that shirt when it got wrapped round the prop?

Both my 40+'s have very worn holes for the retaining bar. Has anyone drilled it out for a larger pin? What about fitting rubber/nylon sleeve on the clamping frames to help cut down vibration ?

tighten up the steering so it doesn't move freely and that gets rid of a lot of vibration

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

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 without my noticing, now that would have been an accomplishment!

Henrik

...... tighten up the steering so it doesn't move freely and that gets rid of a lot of vibration....

I do that with all my Seagulls, doesn't stop the vibration from a worn hinge pin.

On my 40+, I put a leather strap in each mount fulcrum, whatever the mount bracket's two journals are called that support the motor's mount, with the right-angled pin through the both of them. That takes up most all of the free play.

This trick isn't friendly with the idea of taking the motor off the bracket though I just remove the motor and bracket together, being as this motor's stored using that bracket as well.

If needed, I'll get a picture up here. Now about the name - is it anything to do with having 40 and then some in terms of pounds thrust? Just a WAG.


-ted