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[Kevin Wood]

yes thats the one i was looking at, and one has to ask what prompted him to take the heads off? and why not put it back on?  :-?

Always strikes me that it's either:

1) He took the head off, didn't like what he saw, so chucked it on Ebay.

2) He's a bit of a tinkerer and couldn't leave it be so stripped it then ran out of talent.

But perhaps I'm too cynical.

What is so basic about an A series?

The point being it's not like it will be impossible to get spares to get it back running.

I reckon it'd make a nice project. It looks reasonably complete and if he's honest about the internal condition a couple of hours' work will see it running. That looks like a dynamo rather than an alternator, but a trip to the scrappies with 20 quid would resolve that.

Might be a tight squeeze into your gap and I see a lot of cast iron in those pictures so it might be heavy. :-/

Kevin

[bluey]

Basically they were built at the factory and then converted by a subsidiary, up in Lincolnshire I think they were.  Still fairly easy to get all the bits, of course the usual mechanical components are very easy to find. 

[Kevin Wood]

I wonder why they've mounted the distributor on top of the bellhousing rather than the usual location driven from the camshaft? :-/

Kevin

[bluey]

Honestly no idea about that, my first thought was to get it up a bit higher but it doesn't look like it has gained anything in the pics compared to the standard placing.   There does seem to be a fair bit of info on them dotted round the web though, so it should be easy enough to sort out, particularly as the lump is one of the most basic engines you can get and the rest of it is deliberately designed to be easy to strip and fix in situ.

[Gaffers]

Ok well I guess the chap had a decent offer as he has removed the listing.

I have a feeling that the standard engine fitted to my type of boat was a stuart turner.  Now most engines that are as old as my boat are simple engine and clutch.

I have come across this one which is clutched only.  How difficult do you think it will be to fit a gearbox with fwd/N/rev?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180590405714&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[Kevin Wood]

Shame. That looked ideal.

I think boats reverse using an epicyclic gear so you can go from forward to reverse and back without fumbling with a gearbox. It just brakes the housing with a brake band. Not something that's easily knocked-up. :-/

Kevin

[Gaffers]

I was thinking more getting a gearbox and making it fit.

A la...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/marine-engine-gearbox-twin-disc-technodrive-/250730816510?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_Boat_Engines_EngineParts_SM&hash=item3a60b8a3fe

...maybe?

[Kevin Wood]

I was thinking more getting a gearbox and making it fit.

A la...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/marine-engine-gearbox-twin-disc-technodrive-/250730816510?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_Boat_Engines_EngineParts_SM&hash=item3a60b8a3fe

...maybe?

That looks a little more like it could be made to fit something. :-/

Both as a package would be by far the easiest, though.

Kevin

[Kevin Wood]

Time to stop pi$$ing about.. You know this is what you need. 8-)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330499841255

Kevin

[Gaffers]

If I stick a hydrfoil on the keel and add a couple of stabilisers it would work