Saving Old Seagulls

Bob I haven't seen this before, can you send me the exact location of an example of of this happening to you & we'll see if we can get you an answer.

Well it's not anything that Seagull stamped there.

Glenn Are you saying the cylinder head in the top left of Tam's picture was the one that gave you 50lbs compression & that the one on the top right was 70lbs? As according to all my notes, the top left one was on the LLS & a few of the early CPC series, it was replaced by the top right one, ...

My understanding of those figures are that at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle you should get 5.75 hours running from 1 gallon of fuel. That give you a fuel consumption figure of about 4.25 Imperial gallons for 24 hours running at less than 3/4 throttle. Assuming you can achieve 4 knots at 3/4 throttle that woul...

I think those pictures came from Face ache.

It looked like a very big press job to me, but I wouldn't bet on that. You must work with sheet metal guys Oyster, show them the pictures & see how they think it was made. I can see how the basic shape could be made with a fly press & a few bits of press tooling & several hours welding, ...

I'm so sorry!

I'm blaming that dreadful gender assignment error on "old timers disease"!

I sincerely hope I didn't distress too many of our readers.

Did you mean gallons/hour or gallons/day? Would a 40+ be the most suitable Seagull, I'd think about a Curlew, 64cc, a clutch, 25:1, way better miles/gallon, quieter & as much oomph as a Century. ( a Curlew uses a Model 75 Century lower unit & prop & spins them 500+ engine revs faster) . ...

How many lawnmowers & stationary engines had vertical crankshafts?

The water slide label makes it 50's or early 60's, as does the fuel cap (Jeremy what does your research suggest & is it an LS?)

There is a lot pointing to an "it could be".

I was sent an email a few days ago. asking if I'd ever seen one of these tanks, & was it a Seagull product?

This was the second one he'd seen, which was 2 more than I have, HELP.

You've got a boat, why not go & get it?

You could test it on the return journey.

It's only just a bit over 11,000 Km!

You could refuel in Hawaii.

Your starting to frighten me Tam! Your grandchildren are trained to use spanners & are aware of the benefits of penetrating oils. I think we'll have to get Blondie to pledge some mythical money for the Hadrian's Wall refurb fund, though I hear some of your country men are very large contributors...

I ultrasonic pistons when they're in a bit of a state like yours, with good results, in white spirit or diesel, just don't let it warm up too much.

Looks good, what was the top main bearing like?

Andrew Here are pictures of some 170 rods I have in my rod drawer. Rod A is a rod I removed from a running 170 that I thought I ought to check, no noise no play, but bent & showing major signs of heat distress with some slight signs of scaring on the bearing surfaces both sides, note there is a ...