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Next up was to be to start it up for a quick run check, but I accidentally pulled the four wires off the spade connections on the starter solenoid. After several days of fiddling and head scratching I eventually worked it out, put everything back together and Bingo, a dashboard light, then the starter kicked in. Put some fuel and in a temp dripe feed thingy, choke on hit the button and hey presto she runs. Quite well too. Here it is at present.
 
May need to fit a bigger fuel tank at some stage. But its a huge relief to have it running at last.

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