saved an old seagull

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Some time ago someone gave me an old seagull (about a circa 1968 40 plus) I came across it in the shed over the weekend and it was totaly seized (in lower leg), manged to unseize it and found no spark and carb blocked up - after about 4 hours messing around, we ended up with this...


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/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif ah, 10-to-1 oil mix - excellent!!!! sounded so sweet, there is water comming out of the tell tale, but you cannot see it in this picture.
 
Dirty heavy smokey foul smelling reliable old engines that will still be running when a lot of the present generation of small outboards are scrap. It has no 'street cred' so nobody wants to steal them. I think they will live for ever or until they are banned as being enviormently unfriendly.
 
>It has no 'street cred' so nobody wants to steal them.
until it becomes well known how much they are worth: many hundred quid if in good running order with a mint undented fuel tank...

dv.
 
hmm, I thought they came out of the factory with dented tanks as standard. You've now just blown a well worn childhood memory out of the water. I had many a happy day pottering about in a dinghy with the dented on hanging on the transom........
 
Look for an old salt with muscles in one arm bigger than the other then he will probably be a seagull user. Once started they were ace. If used every day it would start first time.
 
Nice one! These scruffy noisy smokey engines can be found in harbours all over the world. And such an engine in original form deserves restoring. When you leave your dinghy, take the engine off coz they are stealable.

And you are not alone...try this eay to navigate website for all the replacement bits you want.

10:1 oil mixture though. Urghh cough-cough-choke I can smell the two-smoke from here /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
About 25 years ago, my dad found a 20 year old seagull outboard belonging to my grandad, that looked exactly like the one in your picture. He cleaned the plug and it started on about the fifth pull, with 20 year old petrol in the tank!

On the back of that triumph he went out and bought a fibreglass dinghy to match it with, and that was my introduction to boating.
 
Satisfying innit?

When I bought my near-derelict boat a few years ago I found a Seagull in the bilges where it must have lain for years.
It was an instant reminder to my intro to boating when I was allowed to take the family cabin cruiser out with an old seagull to go camping. I wasn't allowed to use the big outboard.
It wasn't just in intro to boating, but mechanics too. Not just once the engine jumped off the transom and went for a swim, but it would start after being hauled back on board.
Fast forward.
I cleaned up the motor from the bilge, painted the tank and put a new cork in the petrol tap. It started third pull in a wheely bin full of water.
The smell and sound brought a whole load of memories back.
 
Aaaah, happy days, can't think of a single other thing from my childhood that evoke's so many memories. I can hear that seagully two stroke ringing in my ears as if it was yesterday.

We had a little 12' clinker sail boat with one of them on the back and at the age of 12 me and my brother used to spend all day throughout the summer up and down Malahide estuary and in and out of the little creeks on golf island. Fantastic fun filled days that seemed to go on forever, can't imagine any parents allowing 12 year olds out on the water un supervised these days probably locked up by social services if you did.

I have a hankering to go out and get one right now and a little row boat just for the memories, which I suppose leads one to consider what were my happiest boaty days, £500 quid old rowey boat with smokey o/b or £400,000 of Italian chic.

Tough one but could go either way!............
 
Think my dads got about 7, or 8 old seagulls of varying sizes in his garage, he's totally hooked on them.

None of them are used mind, he uses a Johnson or a Honda when out and about, I think he's going to leave them for us as an inheritence, what will I want with 8 seagull motors?!
 
I have 2 now, one in good condition on the one that was fixed over the weekend, but now i use a 4hp yamaha which smokes less, has more power but somwhow is not quite as... i dont know - i know one thing if it goes wrong i am not touching it, far to complex.

Tell you what though, i know which engine attracts the most attention when you arrive - and for the same reasons as on here, i remember i started with one of those... (dont show to an eco-warrior though /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
 
Snap. I've got an almost immaculate 40+ Long Shaft on the garage wall and a 4hp Yamaha on the boat.
The Yamaha starts, runs quietly, ticks over steadily, has forward, neutral and reverse. Lovely motor.
I wouldn't put the Seagull on the boat, on the other hand I don't think I'll sell it.

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