cheers, i knew the coilpack was wasted spark so i checked the leads for resistance straight off and they were all around 28k ohm but if i pulled cyl2 HT lead off when running the engine note did not change and i didnt get a kick in the arm either

we had another fiesta (1.4 inj) sitting around so we took no2 lead from that and resistance was 18k ohm, didnt make any difference to running when fitted though

there is another issue that could well be the cause lol

the owner of the car got excited when he saw the engine in and kinda insisted on starting the car with a billycan of fuel down the carb....im have never worked with carb systems TBH but it seemed to be a hell of a lot of fuel going down there

when i saw the airbox on the top of the carb ballooning out due to the fuel being ignited i thought we might be in for one of those days lol, what part of the carb would be damaged to prevent fuel to cyl 2?