Finaly got round to doing a bit more, adjusting the front ride height, Its currently only a couple of mm off the bumpstops. I had tried moving the torsion bar 1 spline but that sat much to high, looked like some sort of gasser. So the next idea was to raise it a couple of holes on the adjustment plate. Rather than take it all appart I madeva contraption out of scrap to pull the arm down which worked perfectly. Basically it clamps around the torsion bar and hooks over the top of the reaction arm, then place a block of wood between it and the inner sill and wind the hook bit down with a piece of studding.
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Need to take it for a drive to settle things but based on the arm bolt going down approx 8mm and the ratio of the arm to wheel centre from the torsion bar being around 4 I 'm expecting to go up around 30mm which will be perfect.
Also took it for a drive and broke down many times, clearly a fuel issue It woud start and idle ok put put any load on and it spluttered to a halt. In the end it wouldn't even rev above a couple of thousand rpm. stripped it down and found the pipe between the jet and float chamber was restricted, blew it out and it seems OK now. next drive will tell!
Not sure how the sediment got there it has a filter king on it, only thing I can think is its historic from before that was fitted and been washed out of the float bowl (there7 wss loads in there too) due to it drying out with lack of use.
next up is fitting the recon twin carbs and LCB manifold, I'll add a second clear filter as well then.
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