Ok, today I pulled all the plugs and gapped them to 25 thou. Two were too widely gapped. I also cleaned up the rotor arm, and the contacts in the cap, oiled the felt thing, and set the points gap to 15mm. I checked all the coil and dizzy wiring and it all looks Ok, but not perfect. The coil has been changed for a Ducelier one and there are a lot of heat shrunk adaptors for the different connections.
Anyway none of this did any good at all. It will not start.
The starter motor is very strong at least. There was also a good smell of fuel. And brake cleaner sprayed in the air intake didn’t work.
That’s about all the checking I can do without a glamorous assistant to turn the key while I check for spark.
Tomorrow a package of parts arrives, so I can service the carb. Judging by the plugs though the fuelling has been spot on. On Friday my wife returns from a work trip so I can do more checking.
I don’t think I have eliminated anything yet.
Edited by bluequinn, 08 April 2025 - 06:46 PM.