Saving Old Seagulls

I agree with the Donald Campbell comment. The flag, the color etc. Although my boat may be a tad slower!

After all of your help the Seagull has been saved & runs great. I probably committed some sort of heresy but I had to make it a little special. Here in the states very few know the motor so This helps start a conversation. The yellow hand truck is just to move it around

Thank you all for your help. (I am late in replying, sorry) But after removing the flywheel to replace the sparkplug cable, cleaning out a seriously dirty fuel tank,finding a fuel tank cap, cleaning the entire exterior of the motor, repainting the painted parts, cleaning out the gearbox and ...

Charles uk wrote:Is your CDI brown or white, only on the white one can you replace the HT lead, don't even try on the brown/ black one or you'll be paying John for an exchange unit.

I have the white one. Thanks.

Ken,
If you have what John says, ie a Mark III or Mark VI ignition, there are no points under the flywheel. You have a CDI ignition. So why are you trying to remove the flywheel? No spark condition, or were you just planning to dress the points, which being CDI , you do not have


I was going to ...

Ken,
If you have what John says, ie a Mark III or Mark VI ignition, there are no points under the flywheel. You have a CDI ignition. So why are you trying to remove the flywheel? No spark condition, or were you just planning to dress the points, which being CDI , you do not have


I was going to ...

I am trying to gain access to the pointsand sparkplug cable on a Seagull Silver Century Motor circa 1979. It has the much maligned (According to many posts) SIBA starter on it. I have gotten down to the flywheel but any of the techniques described on other post don't seem to apply to this one ...