Saving Old Seagulls

You should have asked Rene, We had some Birmabright mixed so remanufactured parts are the same colour, not cheap, but we're all a bit anal!

Quite a few people have said that about me!

42 miles around the island of Bermuda.

I'm not sure how far the Waikato race is, 80 something miles.

Search for the trip on the Murry the Aussies did.

Undo the 1/4" BSF bolts below the baseplate, these should release the flywheel cover & with luck you should be able to lift it enough to see the bottom 1/2" of the flywheel rim & be able to see a shallow groove 3/8" above the bottom of the flywheel base, if the groove is prese...

Sorry getting you mixed up with another Seagull can't say anything about yours, as we don't have the engine number.

Yours is a factory rebuild & that doesn't tell us which ignition they fitted.

Remove flywheel cover & inspect flywheel rim,

no groove white CDI

groove black CDI

Run at 25 thou until your sure, as the black CDI struggles at 35 thou, & replacements are expensive!

Well the White CDI is 35 thou & the Black 25.

I run both at 25 thou & haven't had a problem yet.

It's dependent on which type of ignition you have fitted to your model 90, black or white CDI.

A picture of the flywheel rim will tell us.

Dependent on engine number.

Depends whether you want it as an ornament or as an outboard motor?

It drives the same prop / lower unit combination as a silver century model 75 at a 1000+ rpm faster, uses less fuel & makes less noise, & has about 30% more oomph!

Oil there is usually from a worn pinion bearing.

That's a very big increase for just a hone, new rings & an early head or did you skim the top off the cylinder?

What was the compression difference between before & after?

Can someone post a picture of the telltale block on the side of an 102 exhaust tube so Red can see where all 102's feed water back into the exhaust, perhaps a previous owner has used a silver century exhaust as a repair. Without doing as I suggested you won't be able to see if the water delivery tub...

Isn't it connected into the exhaust?

If you get no joy after trying Nudge's suggestion, take it out of the water, remove the bottom end of the water into the exhaust tube from the top of the water into the exhaust/tell tale fitting & attach it into the end of your garden hose after checking the olive doesn't come off. Now back flus...