Guys thanks for all your help, i am a rodney!!..the problem was i did mark both pullies when stripping the engine, and once i thought about it, the camshaft wasnt marked and i must of put the pully back on at the right mark but the camshaft was out.....it now purrs like a kitten....thanks again

yes there is 12v to the coil, using a seperate battery for the coil than the starter, and i would love to drag it up and down the road, but the bulkhead isnt fitted yet so only have the engine in, coil bolted crudely to engine block lol

so my next step is either 24v start dont really want to do this of try and get a starting handle, because it goes to start but diue to the nature of the starter as soon as it starts to run it drops out and stops the engine so i think its needs abit more turn over onece it fires??

only clutch cleaner, i was told engines get addicted to easy start

no didnt work, but trying its best to start exhaust is started to heat up but still not running??

it is a new one piece gasket so will try this :rolleyes:

yeh both closed defo compression cycle

yeh i checked the drive dog and it was 20' as in manual and the spark is on the compression cycle on piston 1 front of the engine i have just been trying :violent:again and now i have the timing spot on it sometimes fires out of the top of the carb??? also when i rebuilt the engine i did leave...

carb not 180 degrees out, was a positive earth changed to neg earth engine runs the right way, timeing spot on....just made a timing light, leads all correct, distributor going right way, manually injected petrol through top of carb still nowt...just a sputter ish as usual....the only thing i...

dear all, I have just finnished a complete rebuild on my 2.25l 3 bearing series 2a :confused::confused::confused:petrol engine as follows: piston rings, all bearing & seals, new valves reground, new weber carb, new distributer, plugs leads and coil, waterpump, fuel pump the lot if ive missed...