Saving Old Seagulls

Oh my God!! And I thought that I have done a nice restoration to my outboard. Now I have second thoughts..!
The best job I have ever seen!

Of course its superb ...love those top feeding Amals
is the choke inlet type original?
only other thing im wondering about is the throttle type?
brilliant job!
i want one!
youtube vid?

stelios you will have your chance with the SD mate

Remarkable work! Really lovely...and definitely raising the bar for restorers. Wish we could see it in person and listen to it purr. Can't wait to see and hear on YouTube on my Bose speakers!

When I had the whole thing in bits & pieces before I sent off to the plating shop, Charles L came down to do a survey, as there are very few long shaft OA's in existence & he wanted to see if there was any difference between mine & a standard shaft series 3 OA.

None of my gudgeon pins have stellite ends, all are just aluminium.

He said the motor was in very good, looked like low use condition, with a spark you could weld with, everything seemed to have the correct material nuts, studds & bolts, & the gearbox had some of the best original bearings he'd ever seen.
He said it looked like it had been hardly used & just left in a damp barn for more than 60 years.
The only new bit I thought it needed was the exhaust to gearbox chrome tube & he gave me a new tiller arm to cut to length as a replacement, but when I replated the old one it came up perfect so I used that.

Would be nice to see it running if possible

I will show her running when the weather get better and if i can find a clean freshwater river to try her out on back of my boat, I have no fear of her running at all. She will run like a dream, I have had her running already
It's the best OA i've got.

Fresh water river sounds good for it.
roll on spring then!

Looks good Mark.

We could do a spring Thames run, bring out the SDs or earlier motors.

Same old Cholsey formula, down to Seagull for a coffee, then up for a pub lunch and back.

Perhaps oyster will get his SD out.

H-A

Good idea H-A. It's about time we had a load of restored engines in the same place at once. How cool would that be

A load of restored engines sounds good. Last time I saw that was at Ibsley in 2010...

I have this ON in my possession now its coming apart ok and thankfully was not seized up!

markhld wrote:When I had the whole thing in bits & pieces before I sent off to the plating shop, Charles L came down to do a survey, as there are very few long shaft OA's in existence & he wanted to see if there was any difference between mine & a standard shaft series 3 OA.

None of my gudgeon pins have stellite ends, all are just aluminium.

He said the motor was in very good, looked like low use condition, with a spark you could weld with, everything seemed to have the correct material nuts, studds & bolts, & the gearbox had some of the best original bearings he'd ever seen.
He said it looked like it had been hardly used & just left in a damp barn for more than 60 years.
The only new bit I thought it needed was the exhaust to gearbox chrome tube & he gave me a new tiller arm to cut to length as a replacement, but when I replated the old one it came up perfect so I used that.

Err, maybe check the pin ends again? I may well be wrong but Aluminium? Floating pins always had Stellite?

If you see aluminium that may not be correct.

Just my thort here.

Stellite falls "OFF" with age.

Stellite stops the Aluminium stop ends from wearing out...............google it if you like.

Charles would know the difference I am sure so correct me if I am wrong eh?

My OA and other Old Motors have Stellite coatings..........It is obvious when looking at it, yes, the item most times is an Aluminium base metal that looks really good when Stellite Flaked away..

If you are happy with your internals, run your motor and enjoy sights, sounds and smells like we do.

YouTube Vid?

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