I thought I'd better post a bit about the Mk2a I bought off Heywood a couple of weeks ago so here goes.
So picked up a Mk2a in silver that has sat around a lot, about 6 years to be more precise, it was advertised with pinholes in the tank so assumed carbs would be in need of a good clean and battery would be well and truly dead at the very least, the day I picked it up I took the van back to work thinking of unloading on the following monday when I had more help, got there to find the manager in doing some homework so blagged him into helping unload, next day I took the van back after offloading my makeshift ramp and decided to hook up a battery booster charger as I hadn't even heard it turn over, done the deed and hit the starter button to check it wasn't siezed and within a fraction of a second found myself in a very small room with a running engine getting gently gassed, switched it off and walked home with a big grin.
Fitted a new battery last friday (same to my other one today) and hooked up a test tank that holds about half a litre filled with avgas (we have that at work) and wheeled it outside to try it, fired up lovely and soon idled nice with no choke, gave it a run up and down the industrial estate and it rides nice and pulls well.
Looked inside the tank with a boroscope and found lots of corrosion in the lower corner where it sits on the stand, chuck a load of triangular stone shot in and gave a right good shake around to shift any loose stuff, this made the holes bigger so hatched a plan, tapped in the bad spots with a ball pein hammer and filled over with isopon leak stop (fuel and ethanol proof), and ordered a 2 part epoxy fuel tank liner stuff to go belt and braces, it could do with another tank but that will do in the mean time.
Looking over it I recon it should breeze through an MOT, once tank is fuel proof I'll give it a proper run and maybe take it for a test.
