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Old 1st November 2011, 05:31 PM
MikeB MikeB is offline
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Thought I'd try and get a start up video to prove to the masses she lives.

Connected up the manifold so it wouldn't be so noisy in the garage.

Fired her up and tweeked the carb so she didn't stall.

Great I thought as she sat there idling, then it dawned on me, how the hell do I turn this off!
I'd hard wired the ignition.
What proceded was about a 30 seconds of blind unrational panic!
I pulled the fuel feed to fuel pump, no luck there must have been plenty in the lines and carb.

Mad panic to disconnect the battery with a spanner. this did the trick!

Man it made me sweat for a minute, in the cold light of day it would have been easy just to pull the lead from the coil pack or a rag over the carb but I was in panic mode!

Only damage I hope is a couple of melted cable sheafs where they were touching the manifold, it got pretty hot quicly and was glowing red. Should the manifold got that hot that quickly?, !
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Last edited by MikeB : 1st November 2011 at 06:27 PM.
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