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Hi 260DET that sounds like a plan although maybe get her going enough for one sneaky lap around the block for inspiration would be nice. This is the main wiring harness where it passed through the fire wall, chewed to pieces by rats so no way I could power up the electrics normally. Disconnected harness power supply wire off the back of the starter and just left the positive starter cable on. Hooked jumper cables to positive battery clamp and negative to the block. Oil and filter changed earlier. Also tablespoon of oil down each cylinder and new plugs. Removed oil pressure sender and cranked by shorting starter solenoid till I had oil pumping out. Put sender back in. Ran a power wire from the jumper battery to the + on the coil pulled the coil lead off the dizzy and cranked. No spark. Fitted new points and condenser. No spark. Traced problem to film of corrosion on the tiny bolt that passed through the insulator block in the dizzy. Cleaned up and fat blue spark on crank. Yippee. Statically timed at 8 degrees There's a timing mark there somewhere. There tis. Cranked and the engine fired immediately but backfired through the carbs. Seems someone accidentally swapped two plug leads. I'm blaming the apprentice. Swapped leads back and cranked again. Apologies for the narration of my youngest. VID_20181007_120015615_HDR.mp4 Pretty stoked and very surprised how quickly the car settled into a stable idle. The black pipe and filter is a temporary fuel supply hanging from the bonnet. Question.The fuel return pipe had an orifice in it, is this standard? Does anyone know? VID_20181007_120514714_HDR.mp4 Cool shot of the carby piston valves responding.

I am so in this boat!