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Thought I'd throw this up to avoid completely hi-jacking @Fingers distributor thread. I'd appreciate comments/ advice on what I've got going on in around the carby/ intake side of my 250 - which I bought a few years back and haven't touched the engine at all while doing body work and interior. The things been off the road pretty much since I bought it and it remains 'non-legal' so can't even tell you how she runs with any real certainty, except to say it made the Dunedin to Christchurch trip with out shitting the bed. Since then it's been nothing but in and out of the shed and on car trailers to panel and paint. I will say that it's always needed plenty of pedal encouragement to start. When it's warmed up she'll crank over nicely but when cold she's a pig and idle has always been a bit 'surgy' - like it idles sweet for a bit then has a wee rough patch where the revs drop and if i wind the idler screw down enough it'll go very close to stalling, kind like when you turn the dizzy a little and revs bottom out. Anyway over the last few days and me trawling through old threads (thanks @deankdx @gerg and @Mr Polson for recent comments) it's clear there's a few gremlins lurking about. As of right now I know the cut off solenoid isn't connected (have another solenoid to fit), the rocker cover gasket needs replacing as oil was dribbling down to plug #4 (I have one here for tomorrow) and there's a question mark over the acc diaphragms. I'd appreciate any comments on the pics below, namely: The green cap/housing that should be on the auto choke has gone walk about - is that the actual thermo or just for cosmetics? The yellow wire that normally goes to the cap is having a good old time hanging out by himself... mine has a black/yellow wire that is plugged in to a 2 plug pin shown in 2nd pic In the pic below you can just see the red wire that normally goes to the cut off solenoid (black plastic just under manifold) is connected to the coil on the same side as the red wire that runs to the dizzy (green wire also running to dizzy from coil). I pulled this wire off the coil yesterday and the engine wouldn't fire with out it... should this be in play or should the coil only have the red & green wires and the lead to the dizzy? Check out the hose on the right of the image - 2 parts with a threaded join. Kink looks ugly - is that an issue interms of restricting flow? Fitting that screws into the top of the manifold - just loops around from the top to the bottom connection. Should that be like that? All other lines and hoses look like they are where they need to be based on pics from others.