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Yesterday we finally got this Series II running - yeah! I have not posted recently since had no updates until now. Thank you Col for the suggestion of using a seperate fuel supply and thank you everyone else for your inputs. I used the seperate supply on the work bench to work out how sensitive...

Choke working fine, I put in the new O ring that came with the £8 eBay Bearmach seal kit, I will see how well the float floats in a pot of fuel when I pull it apart at the weekend, since when the engine was cut it continued leaking fuel out of the spindle for a minute or so !

I set it with the filter on, I will try the above but just need to get it to run long enough to get it up to operating temp first, so hopefully using the fuel bottle will get me there. I will have a go this weekend. Not knowing the vehicle it would be nice to know how it was running when it was...

Yes, the mixture screw looks fine and new like the rest of the brassware, it has not been screwed in too far since I realise that this can be a problem - damaging the seat. It seems happiest set at just below 1 turn out. Good idea about the feed bottle, I have one so will try that since if we...

Thanks Col. I can see that it was ultrasonically cleaned by the amount of tiny aluminium particle residue there was in the bottom of the float bowl when I first stripped the carb and how little shellac like residue there was. I removed and went through all the jets with varying sizes of of...

Hi Col, thanks for your help. I checked the points gap and cleaned up the plugs and re gapped to 0.9mm but cannot get it running long enough to check the timing. The restorers seemed to have done such an amazing job on everything else that I didn't want to meddle too much at first. The carb has...

My neighbour bought a series 2a that has had a nut and bolt restoration to original spec. about 2 1/2 years ago by Hobson Industries in Lincolnshire the vehicle has then sat in a barn unused and unstarted since. Apparently they run all restorations for 500miles before sending them out to their...