I had gotten the little Elephant to run right when I bought it, so it should be pretty straight forward, now after about half a year of it being parked to make it run again, right? RIGHT?
Just add fuel ...
... maybe a fresh fuel filter for good measure (that old tank wasn't swapped for no reason) ...
...and then this demonic device should make the magic happen ?
There was fuel in the tank and the battery fully charged and not much happened, I guess it was just time to do some extended maintenance.
The old spark plugs actually didn't look too bad.
Old rotor had seen better days, but if I am honest, you can see the difference in build quality between an original Nippon Denso part and the current day knock off.
Neat spaghetti.
Technically speaking it was running (-ish), but it wouldn't do so very well, if I am honest. There was quite a bit of debris in the pre-chamber for the idle air...
... but most importantly lots of gunk (still) in the bottom of the float chamber. So out came my secret weapon of ultimate carb-cleaning lazyness: Liquid carb cleaner.
And the air-passages in the needle jet were completely blocked.
Couple minutes later most of the gunk has loosened up and is floating around.
Spotless. (With a bit of help of some strategically applied brake cleaner and some cotton swabs.)
Those couple of small specs did it.
Everything back together and the lil' Elephant fired straight up.
But now the (mechanical) regulator was stuck in toast-the-battery-mode.
Luckily the regulator used on these alternators is found on a lot of Japanese vehicles from the early 1980ies, including various Toyota Land Cruisers and Corollas, so even my local parts shop could get a new one with relative ease.
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