"Sal's Dad" wrote in message
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Motor ran fine for years, but I couldn't get it started last year. Maybe
I
should have rebuilt it at the time.

By the way, it's a British Seagull Forty Plus.

yeah...but you can't compare a British Seagull to the run of the mill
outboards from the USA & Japan!