Saving Old Seagulls

Clutch fork should sit with no friction between gearbox housing and prop when not engaged. You’ll find it’s not too hard to adjust to correct length once all the pieces are back together, there’s a natural “feel” to it. Want to make sure the clutch fully engages and disengages the gears inside, and ...

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I have one of the plastic tanks on a late model EFNR. It originally came with one of the cheap plastic fuel taps, which is broken like many others by now. I have tried two different replacement taps (traditional ewarts brass and an aftermarket plastic one) but they do not fit as there is a small res...

I believe all driveshafts should be hollow.

In my experience it’s usually the bottom of the shaft that gets clogged up. I always assumed that this is the work of gravity over time. A very long drill bit will loosen the rust etc out of the center of the shaft.

On the plastic plug, a good pair of pliers/grips around the outside of the plug will be enough to break the seal (counterclockwise) without damaging it. The screwdriver grooves on the end generally get chewed up with age, and can be hard to use as you have seen. If you do mess up the plug, new ones ...

Welcome to the forum! You won't be boring anyone here with seagull problems, quite the opposite. RE the youtube links, you did it correctly using the YouTube button, but need to paste the link without the 's' in 'https', i.e. 'http' only. This is a known issue and we are working to fix, in the meant...

Solved! Though not my proudest moment to be sure. Hopefully my mistake will be a lesson for others. I had reassembled with the Wipac MK4 CDI installed the wrong way around (rotated 180 degrees). So it was still producing an excellent spark, just at the perfectly wrong time ie right before Bottom Dea...

will try the other key slot next, thanks for the suggestion! Will also take/post some photos of the setup if that doesn't work.

Cheers

Flywheel key definitely in the century slot. But I will probably swap the entire ignition/flywheel/base assembly from another reliable forty just to be sure that isn’t the problem (keyway slot changed for the test of course). Then can at least tick that off the list. Need to grab some bubbles from t...

Tried a few more things tonight, still no luck: WD40 and fresh gas in the intake, and Amal 2 jet carb. Spark did indeed jump quite far from bare cable tip, several mm at least. I feel ignition and compression are more likely OK than fuel. So will explore that some more. Could be contaminated (but ex...

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Black MK4 CDI, single groove flywheel, woodruff key in the right slot. Tried all manners of plug gaps in small increments from way too tight to about 45 thou. Still need to see if it can jump a big ie 5/6mm gap but given I’ve got a new coil on there and the original ...

Nice build! Any more photos of finished product?

How many hours did you put into it if I may ask? And transom, is it 3/4 inch ply? Thinking of a similar size build myself and obviously want to keep it as light as possible.

Thanks Bruce for the tips! No luck so far, unfortunately for me. Took the cases apart, they cleaned up easily and appear in good condition. Had a bit of that red silicone-like gasket sealer on the mating surfaces which I cleaned off, hoping that had degraded and was causing the issues. Alas no. Ligh...

Working to get an EFNR up and running but having some difficulties. I ran this motor only once when I bought it a few years ago. Was very tough to start and ran rough. Motor otherwise in good condition. Recently I cleaned up the carb (Amal 416 1A) and replaced the rings and head/base gaskets. Did no...