my cool lil motor

[Kajun]

last week i was riding along in pensacola,florida and i passed a antique shop..instead of stopping, i just called information and got their phone number..so i call the shop and ask.."do you have any antique outboards?" and the guy tells me .."yes we sure do..its a 1902 pelican, and its in great condition"...so here i am thinking i just won the lottery by finding an ultra rare outboard..i turn around and head back to the shop...run inside and the guy says..."i have to dig it out"....so i wait around and he yells "i found it"...so i go back there and he pulls out this old outboard...i then see the seagull lettering on the tank...oh well its not a 1902 outboard lol but this seagull must be very old and its in excellent condition...so i ask the guy...what do you want for it.. and he says "$200"...i tell him $150 and he accepts..i'm thinking i just pulled off the best deal in history and trying not to crack the biggest chit eating grin possible ....all the way home i'm thinking this must be a really old motor..since i didnt know very much about seagulls except seeing a few pictures of them...

i get home and find the serial and come online and look it up...FP 314A8.....well turns out it isnt very old at all....what i can gather its a 1968 forty plus.....i was hoping for something a bit older since 1968 was the year i was born lol but it wasnt to be....BUT i still had this cool lil motor and started reading more about them...and liked it even more after finding out its simple to work on and built like a little tank!! saturday and sunday i spent all day cleaning it up..today i decided to try to start it..started up after a few pulls!...prob would of started on the first pull if i had gave it alil gas instead of turning the throttle the opposite way......ran fine but i have a water circulation problem...water was coming out the tell tale intermittantly and the block got kinda hot so i shut down....gonna have to troubleshoot it....


heres some pics of it...


Before....












After...2 days... a case of bud light and some sore fingers....

[bradford]

Nice one Kajun, that case of budlight can work wonders can't it?

[Sean]

Nice find and classy lookin! You should see if the misses will let you put it in the family room with a candy dish on it ;D

[spareparts]

so do you brush the Bud Light on, or just spray it? ;D

be carefull with that motor, if word gets out you have one, there will be a line of blow boaters knocking down your door to offer you half of what you paid for it, then complain about the condition ;D

BTW, may father has a '48 7 1/2 hp Corsair ob, and a 1914 single cylinder "one lunger" inboard engine(water cooled, external points, hand crank on the flywheel). One of these days I'm going to get both of them and clean'em up. Don't have tiem to srew with them now.

[Blue_Runner]

Wow it cleaned up great. I've got a late 60's 33hp super sea horse....wanna buy it - $200 ( ok I'll take $150 ;D)

[Stinky_Hooker]

Very cool..... 8)


but you are gonna need at least two of those to push a V. ::)

[msbhammer]

Kool Pics. K. ;)

From the pics, it looks like water circulation is the least of your problems. I think you may have an addiction to old outboards.

I'm gonna try pouring beer on my boat to see how it comes out.

[Kajun]

randleman..your right...i do have an addiction to old outboards lol...i got 4 more old ob's that are not in the pics and a i just bought a 1939 ob from ebay.....whats bad is i dont even have a old boat ...yet lol


stink...these seagulls will push a V20 with no problem...they were made for pushing big boats...not fast..but slow and steady lol....i'll was gonna test it out on the 18 as soon as i can ;D

[spareparts]

almost forgot to warn you, if those blowboaters show up to claim the seagull, hid your toilet paper, its the first thing they steal ;D