Before I go out again for an evening of tinkering, I better give an update from yesterday.
Tested the vacuum on the distributor. Through the brittle PVC tube it's holding no vacuum. Directly on the screw fitting moves the dizzy plate but doesn't hold a vacuum. I'll replace the pipe fitting to the advance so it'll do something. Good enough for now.
Finished cleaning up the carb spacer and mounts.
Fitted the carb back on.
Fitted a fuel filter.
Then turned the ignition on to pressurise the fuel system.
Oh. Leaking from the jet to float bowl. I thought I got it in properly but obviously didn't. Wish I put fluids in it before I put it together. Going to be a bit of a pain to replace. May have to take the carb off to make it easier.
Replaced the accelerator cable. Morris Minor is an identical replacement, so cheap and easy part to get hold of.
Old one was a bit rusty at the exposed area by the pedal.
Next up was the choke cable. I bought a Mini one thinking it'll be the same. It's not, the Mini is much shorter. Thankfully I had another choke cable in my box of crap. Not sure what it was off - I suspect from the box or bits from the Purple 1100.
The old one was stuck and jammed out.
To replace it I removed the top panel to get better access. Four screws and then it just pulled off.
The nut was easily accessible.
I removed the ignition switch to get access in for my spanner.
Tried the Mini one and realised the mounting washer was far too small. So used the other one I had. It fitted but didn't have the nice chrome bit showing. Oh well, at least it works now.
Clear why the old one didn't work.
Finally decided to fix the indicator stalk light. For those that don't know, these era Austins had the flashing indicator on the end of the stalks. At some point someone snapped off the end cover and bits got stuck in the end. The replacement cap someone fitted didn't stay on without falling off.
After a lot of scraping with a screwdriver on the thread, I cleaned out most of the old plastic. Now the cap fits on better. Not perfect but at least it doesn't fall off.