Saving Old Seagulls

What no more green paint!
If you get stuck for parts to polish, let me know?

Either a fuel problem at the carburettor, low crank case pressure from a worn or leaking crank case, or low compression, worn rings.
See if you have any sideways movement on the flywheel, that's normally a good indicator of worn bushes.
Anneal the head gasket if you are reusing.

Fuel inlet port from the carburettor is behind the piston, the transfer port that lets fuel from the crank case to the cylinder head is above the piston. The piston is the right way up, you need a sealed crank case, so look for worn crank case bushes and piston compression, you have a spark, so must...

Anything with a square drive maybe.

They were all fixed tiller in design, later ones were modified to side tiller by BS.

A 1951 FVP, the LS looks more like a standard 40, than a little forty.

From what I have seen, right or wrong, FV/P, were Little model forty's and even advertised as a baby Seagull. Fourteenth edition manual for a little forty, has some ones FV number on it and later you have manual with little forty and forty plus, so that don't tell us much. Also you have the Seagull ...

Why is it a little forty ?

I could, but it's not drawn to any spec, as I don't have one, this was just done from the pictures I posted.
PM me if you need something drawn up, that's if I have the part to draw It to the right size.

What ever I design in 3D CAD, I can print on my 3D printer, not that I have printed anything lately. Like my FVP avatar, it's a 3D drawing, so I just separate the parts and print them, It's going to be about a 3ft tall model, it sounds easy, but that's not always the way, I should have started small...

10 minutes on the computer.

It's a bit of a mixed bag of parts, but it's worth putting right, nice find.

The white block has a different latching setup.
The white thrust block can be easily printed as the drawing for that is already available on line, plus the impeller, I don't have a block, so I cannot draw one to make one.

A later Marston heads will fit an SD, later on the 102 went to studs fitted to the head rather than studs fitted to the crank case.
Earlier head on a later Seagull, pretty much.

I thought I had seen them before.