Another few hours during the weekend past was spent fannying in the garage. Where we left off the week before was a potentially dead wire/distributor/engine. Out came the Haynes manual straight to the "how to get the timing right" page. This involved fiddling with the pulley thing by the radiator to get it to 6 deg BTDC and then getting the rotor in the distributor pointing at #1 plug/cylinder.
Cock! I was determined to get this going. Equipped with a Simon and various sized spanners, out came the electronic distributor that may/may not be brown bread and in went Paul's points version. More fannying and fiddling and off she goes! I now know how to install a distributor! There also seems to be no sign of the paddling in unleaded "safety" feature either!
One concern is that something is sticking somewhere on cranking. It's almost as if the battery hasn't enough power to turn the engine over. It can't be the starter motor though as that's been done?
Mid week I intend to have another go at starting. What's the betting it be buggered again?!
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