Todays big moment....

Well after this weeks task of rebuilding and refitting the engine, today we decided to find out if it started...........

some fresh oil back into the engine, and the fuel tanks first batch of fuel placed inside it. it was time for some pre flight checks...

after ensuring all wires has been connected up on the engine block and bay area, my first concern was that i seemingly had no power going to the fuel pump, but it turns out there is no feed to the pump until the starter motor and fuel injection system kicks in.

first stage was to the the engine over manually by hand to get some of the oil pumped around the block and try to prime it up to the head so that when it was turned over on the starter motor there wasn't going to be a lack of oil up top. so the plugs were left out to do this.

once it has been turned over by hand, the engine was then turned over with the starter motor, at this point the fuel pump also kicks in and enabled the fuel system to be primed, the engine was turned over until fuel was being pumped into the chambers. once the fuel system was primed a good visual checks was made on all the fuel pipes and fittings to ensure no leaks were present.

the spark plugs were then fitted and the HT leads connected up and it was then time for the moment of truth..........................................

and on the first turn of the key................

It fired up into life!!!

as it was being run in the shed it wasn't taken much over tick over, but so far every thing seems to run all ok, idle currently seems a little low, but this could be down to now having a whole new air in take system not giving enough back pressure, so i will adjust this later along with checking the timing of the engine. in a few days it will be hopefully taken out to enable it to be run up to full temperature to check for leaks in the cooling system. after 6 months its alive again!!