Saving Old Seagulls

I have gotten it running now and replaced the carb and float bowl bolt (the threads were messed up on the carb body so I replaced it). Yes it's for sale and running well. I can even ship it in it's original box. I am sure I can ship it to BDA but you would have to pay the shipping cost. I am usually ...

So what your saying is you didn't clean & set the points properly first.

I think there's a moral in this tale

Nope, I didn't. Understand, this was a motor that was boxed up since new and I just uncrated it. I would assume that the points would have been set when built and would have stayed that ...

Not that this saga is worth continuing, but.......
Took the now running Seagull to the boat, mounted it and put a carefully measured 10:1 mix in the tank. Started on the 2nd pull. Hooray......but, remember the loose float bowl bolt? Well my self satisfied smugness disappeared quickly as fuel started ...

Took all the ignition parts apart again and then put it back together. Looked fine 'tho the points looked too far open. Odd for a new motor. Adjusted them to .020. Spun the motor with a drill and saw no spark. Bravely felt the lead and sensed a slight current. Spun it again and a bit more. Then I ...

Well this idiot still has no spark. Flywheel has some magnetic attraction so I guess it's ok. So, is it likely that sitting for so long has damaged the coil? Wonder if anyone has a coil for a WSPCL 1465 ?

OK, carb is clean, but still won't start. Absolutely no spark is the problem. points cleaned, all connections checked. Looks like new (as it is) so I'm thinking that it's the loss of magnetism (after sitting in a damp basement for 50 years) on the flywheel trick!
I made a drill adapter to spin it ...

niander wrote:Hi dont think that has reverce ...foward and neutral i thinkl

Oops - I think I meant to say clutch. Sorry.
TP

A Danish, BB 10 meter sloop. I got caught in a Chesapeake squall and the Seagull putted me to the lee of the shore while 50 kt squalls rolled overhead. 5 minutes earlier and I'd have been dry, 5 minutes later.... who knows?
TP

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And again, what was in the "time capsule".
I also have a nice Silver Century with clutch and recoil start that starts every time for sale. It pushes my 33' easily driven sailboat at anbout 4 kts in calm water but doesn't have quite enough umph to be the right motor for that boat ...

$350 is a very fair price for that! What a find. If I didn't think I'd get tossed out of the house for buying another engine, I'd be there in an hour. You're making it very hard to behave.

Best of luck.
It was a good find and I was looking forward to hanging it off the boat - it suits it. But ...

I have an unstarted, new (old) in box, Silver Century Plus for sale. Long shaft, plus reverse.
It had sat in a basement for over 40 years. I have taken it out of the box and cleaned the points, coil, etc. Put in mixed gas and expected it to start. No go.
I was given a nice Tohatsu 6hp that my wife ...

I'll get that tomorrow. The model 75 pushes us in and out of the creek allright and in a flat calm we go about 4 kts. Any chop and we crawl along at 3 kts barely. Good to know the WSPC is a bit more powerful. I found it as a new motor, in the box since 1976, pretty corroded superficially but never ...

Can the recoil starting mechanism be mounted on any Seagull? I have a nice model 75 with a recoil starter and I want to mount it on a Silver Century Plus (WSPCL). I'm hoping the WSPCL has a little more power than the 75. The 5 blade prop certainly looks more powerful than the 4 rounded blades of the ...

Oh yes, it was loud. I did it at work at the end of the day. With the right size and number of nuts and about 15 minutes in the shaker it did a pretty good job. (I run the model shops here at the US Naval Academy - wind tunnel, tank testing models - shop for Midshipmen). Despite flushing copiously ...

I have a model 75 that is heavily tasked, pushing a slim 33', 5000# BB 10 meter sloop. Yesterday it did the exact same thing - running rougher and only running at 1/2 throttle. Closing choke helped too. Unscrewed float bowl and there was gunk in it. Squirted carb cleaner in jets, throat, etc and put ...