The good thing about this forum is that we get some clever guys & gals on here. After almost a week of wailing and much gnashing of teeth along with language that the BBC would not approve of You start to imagine all sorts of things and I wondered if I would have to take the engine out and do a strip down
At the end of yesterday I was running out of ideas but it seemed to me that the ignition might be way too advanced. I had dismissed this idea because I had fitted a 123 ignition set up and installed it as per the manual. Then clever old Pete rang me last night , first thing he said was "It's your ignition timing". So with renewed hope I got on it 1st thing this morning, ignoring the 123 manual because I knew I was getting a good spark and just tried moving the distributor . All of a sudden the engine turned over fine with the plugs in but would not fire
Then I noticed that it might work better if I reconnected the plug leads
It fired up straight away and ran really well so well done Pete
I let it run for about 30 mins as the plan was to let the 10W/40 semi-synth oil have a good flush around the engine and get up to temperature then drain it and fill with the 10W/60 Mobile1 oil. I was amazed as the oil came out almost black
New oil now in , clutch to adjust then it is off round the block