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The seller did turn up to show me how to start her, but he wasn’t any more successful than me.
He said he’d never had starting issues, never had to bleed her or use the enrichening slide that is built within the fuel pump, even on frosty mornings. A brief spin up with the throttle pedal trapped with a piece of wood was all that was needed supposedly.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I do believe him and think some shit must have been dislodged on the 50 mile trip home on my hard sprung trailer. I’ll follow the ideas over fuel delivery gratefully received from you guys and try to see if I can discover the problem.

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On 08/05/2021 at 18:58, Baldbloke said:

The seller did turn up to show me how to start her, but he wasn’t any more successful than me.
He said he’d never had starting issues, never had to bleed her or use the enrichening slide that is built within the fuel pump, even on frosty mornings. A brief spin up with the throttle pedal trapped with a piece of wood was all that was needed supposedly.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I do believe him and think some shit must have been dislodged on the 50 mile trip home on my hard sprung trailer. I’ll follow the ideas over fuel delivery gratefully received from you guys and try to see if I can discover the problem.

On some, where the fuel pipe comes out of the tank, it is screwed on to a larger fitting screwed into the bottom of the tank. This larger fitting sometimes has a filter on the inside which often gets overlooked.

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On 08/05/2021 at 18:58, Baldbloke said:

The seller did turn up to show me how to start her, but he wasn’t any more successful than me.
He said he’d never had starting issues, never had to bleed her or use the enrichening slide that is built within the fuel pump, even on frosty mornings. A brief spin up with the throttle pedal trapped with a piece of wood was all that was needed supposedly.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I do believe him and think some shit must have been dislodged on the 50 mile trip home on my hard sprung trailer. I’ll follow the ideas over fuel delivery gratefully received from you guys and try to see if I can discover the problem.

I think you are too trusting.

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