The only solutions I can think of are the obvious; restricted fuel line, tank vent not open enough, choke on, etc. For what it's worth, my Seagull also has one speed: full throttle. Anything less tends to foul the plug. The good news is that 1) a Seagull can run all day, every day, for decades, at full throttle. 2) "full throttle" means you're rocketing along at a blinding 3 knots. On Sep 27, 2012, at 3:13 PM, John Schinnerer wrote:
Aloha,
Seeing there may be some seagull experts here - a friend has a 1980's seagull on a recently purchased used boat. On his first outing, it ran readily, but only at an idle, wouldn't rev up beyond that.
I realize that's not much info, and, sometimes someone knows just what that's about for some particular machine - if anyone here does, please advise. He's fairly mechanical so I am assuming he would know if it was just a broken throttle cable or something simple like that.
If more info is needed I can ask him for details on the motor. Hope to be taking a sail with him in near future and would like to have a working auxiliary. His previous outing involved a rather long channel passage where the engine at idle held speed over ground at zero vs. outgoing tide...not quite useful for getting home... :-)
thanks, John S.
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