Well after what seems like weeks of backward steps last night at 9.45pm the Willys burst into life and ran like a champ I just hope it didn't frighten the neighbours too much

Fred came over yesterday at 3.00pm and we went back to basics and retimed the complete engine, as we suspected the problem was the markings on the crank timing gear, we set it all up again with the degree wheel and ignored the marks, it took a few hours checking and double checking and then triple checking but after checking for oil pressure etc etc it burst into life after one turn of the key just a bit of fine tuning on the carbs & dizzy to do now.

Huge thanks to Fred who sussed the problem and went beyond the call of duty to get it done (I think he was as keen as I was to hear it run really)

Unfortunately no video just yet as the radiator is at the repair shop but when it returns will get some vid done

Heres a pic of it all stripped out







Heres a pic of the timing tape installed on the homemade pulley thingy.






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