Harry
P14 #234, Manatee
Mountain View, CA
>What I hate about my Seagull is the lack of plastic parts to
>crack. Gosh, those Brits were dumb.
>
>Bill Longyard
>Winston-Salem, NC
>
>hlg@pacbell.net wrote:
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>> It's time to bring back the Seagull. Mine never requires a freshwater
>> flush, and I've never replaced an impeller or any other internal parts. Of
>> course, it's only 32 years old.
>>
>> Harry
>> P14 #234, Manatee
>> Forty Plus Seagull
>> Mountain View, CA
>>
>> >Thanks for setting the record straight. I can't say that it makes any sense
>> >to me why, in a design where light weight and compactness are a prime
>> >consideration, a company would choose to carry the complexity and extra
>>parts
>> >of two types of cooling systems - forced air AND water cooling. But it
>>that's
>> >the way it is, then that's the way it is and I'm glad you've corrected my
>> >error. I apologize to those I've mislead and to the shop I suggested was
>> >incompetent or dishonest.
>> >
>> >Unfortunately, this knowledge decreases my desire to buy one of these
>>engines
>> >by about 90%. I perceived one of the big advantages of the air cooled
>>engine
>> >as making it unecessary to run the engine in a big bucket of fresh water in
>> >order to rinse out the saltwater from the water pump, internal
>>passages, etc.
>> >after saltwater use. The Mercury 2.2 that I have now often spends more
>>time
>> >running in the bucket than it did pushing the boat!
>> >
>> >Maybe paddles aren't so bad after all.....
>> >
>> >Dave Kautz
>> >P-15 #1632 Tilly Lucy
>> >Palo Alto, CA